Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Sumerian literature 3. Corpus-based approaches to the study of Sumerian 4. Fear (ni2) and its collocates in the ETCSL corpus Graham Cunningham 5. Preverbal /n/: function and distribution Paul Delnero ( University of Pennsylvania) 6. ak nu-ak (to do or not to do) Jarle Ebeling 7. Bull imagery in Sumerian religious literature Laura Feldt ( Aarhus University) 8. Eme-sal in Old Babylonian literary texts: a corpus-based approach Alhena Gadotti (University of California, Berkeley) 9. The conjugation prefixes in the proverb collection Fumi Karahashi (University of Pennsylvania) 10. Lexical variety and curricular grouping in House F Eleanor Robson (University of Cambridge) 11. The polysemy and productivity of the derivative element nam- in OB literary Sumerian Balint Tanos (L. Eotvos University, Budapest) 12. A quantitative analysis of the Sumerian proverb collections Jon Taylor (British Museum) 13. The multi-word construction igi bar in the Old Babylonian Period Gabor Zolyomi (L. Eotvos University, Budapest) 14. Catalogue of literary compositions in the ETCSL with reference to print publications

About the Author

Graham Cunningham is a researcher and part-time lecturer in Sumerian at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Jarle Ebeling is a researcher at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.