1. The paronomastic infinitive in Akkadian is an interesting construction. The phenomenon comprises two basic types, based upon form, one ending in -um(-ma), the other in -am. The former, which is attested in about seventy cases from the OB letter corpus, has been described in Cohen 2004; for the latter, which is rather rare, a solution arrived at recently is hereby proposed. The literature referring to the paronomastic infinitive ending in -um(-ma) has already been discussed (ibid., 105-6) and will not be repeated. The principles of classification of these cases, however, will be reviewed and exemplified here briefly to provide a framework for the discussion of the two types.