The Puñjâb and the Rig-Veda

Pindar’s <i>Pythian Twelve</i>: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study

“…, 1990, Watkins (representatively, 1995) and García Ramón (2000). Not only does the scientific work of these scholars prove that historical linguistics, and in particular, the comparative approach, offers powerful means to elucidate various aspects of Archaic Greek poetry in general, and Pindar in particular (see García Ramón 2000, Watkins 2001Watkins , 2002aWatkins , 2002b, but it also lays out the basis for new work in the field of Comparative Philology. The forementioned studies show that comparative phraseological analysis actually allows us to reach plausible conclusions on inherited poetic stock, even when it operates with non-perfect word-/collocation-correspondences, while the phenomenon of lexical renewal is regulated by a variety of patterns that can be studied and described in detail.…”

“…Nevertheless, it seems to refer to a pre- (Forssman 1966, Sotiriou 1998). Additionally, it exhibits the reflexes of very ancient phraseology, which may even be recognized as 'descriptively Indo-European'7 (Wüst 1970, Watkins 2002a, 2002b, Toporov 2012, Meusel 2020. Moreover, the role played by metrics is anything but marginal.…”