Analysing Literary Sumerian - Corpus-based Approaches - Jarle Ebeling
The polysemy and productivity of the formative element nam in Old Babylonian literary Sumerian
Analysing Literary Sumerian - Corpus-based Approaches - Jarle Ebeling
Jarle Ebeling [+]
University of Oxford
Jarle Ebeling is a researcher at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, specializing in corpus linguistics.
Description
This chapter concentrates on the elemen nam which when functioning as an affix, it will be argued, exhibits characteristics of prototypical derivational affiixes such as polysemy and productivity, and the corpus data is analysede in light of these concepts.