From: random randomersson
Message: 25137
Date: 2003-08-17
I don't mean to denigrate Pokorny in any way, Though I'm working on it, I'm not yet much of an expert on the linguistic side of things. I'm basing this off of the comment I found on the internet: "Pokorny is regarded as disgracefully lax by indoeuropeanists, terrible in fact, bad by our standards" by Don Ringe at http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Work/ringe.html. I just think it would be wise to cross reference the lists of several Indo-Europeanists and compare their thinking and results. It's good scientific practice, I think. Such other works must exist, musn't they? Can anyone suggest other prominent works I can use in addition to Pokorny? As I said I am not adverse to buying books should the need be. Thank you very much.
-David