Argues that clí (m.) ‘poet of the third highest rank’ is distinct from clí (f.) ‘house-post, pillar’, and that cleth (f.) ‘house-post’ and clí (f.) represent an instance of paradigm split. Additionally suggests that clith in Audacht Morainn, §§2.18, 63.163 (as ed. by F. Kelly, 1976) represents an oblique case of clí.
Discusses other PIE parallels of ‘Act of Truth’ and cognate verbal expressions of the following four expressions: 1. Is tre ḟír flathemon ‘it is through the ruler’s truth’; 2. mortlithi (mórslóg no) márlóchet di doínib dingbatar ‘plagues, (a great host, or) great lightnings are warded off men’; 3. gáu ḟlathemon ‘ruler’s falsehood’; 4. ní[n]-aurdallat dána (support for emendation to ní-n-aurdallat anai ‘let not riches blind him’ (see F. Kelly, AM §31); 5. to- aidble éisc i sruthaib -snáither (emends to to- aidbli éisc i sruthaib -snáither ‘with abundance of fish it is swum in streams’, taking to-snáither to be an impersonal passive rather than 2nd sg. deponent (see F. Kelly, AM §20).
Repr. in Watkins selected writings II, pp. 626-643.
Watkins (Calvert) (ed.): Studies in memory of Warren Cowgill (1929–1985): Papers from the Fourth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell University, June 6–9, 1985 / edited by Calvert Watkins.
Discusses the echoes, elsewhere in Indo-European, of two Irish formulaic phrases : 1. tongu do dia toinges mo thúath (and related phrases); 2. “pillar of X” (e. g. Ir. tuir Bhreagh).
Repr. in Watkins selected writings II, pp. 741-750.
Watkins (Calvert), Oliver (Lisi) (ed.): Calvert Watkins: selected writings / edited by Lisi Oliver.
IBS, 80. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1994. xvi + 771 pp. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft: Hauptreihe, 80).
Vol. I: Language and linguistics. xv + 346 pp.
Vol. II: Culture and poetics. 350-771 pp.
Supplemented by
Vol. III: Publications 1992–2008 / ed. by Lisi Oliver. Innsbruck: Inst. für Sprachen und Literaturen der Univ. Innsbruck, 2008. xiii + 325 (= 775-1100) pp. [= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft: Hauptreihe, 129].
Rev. by
Michael Janda, in Kratylos 55 (2010), pp. 54-60 (3).
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 48 (1996), pp. 318-320 (1-2).
Jasanoff (Jay) (ed.), Melchert (H. Craig) (ed.), Oliver (Lisi) (ed.): Mír curad: studies in honor of Calvert Watkins / edited by Jay Jasanoff, H. Craig Melchert and Lisi Oliver.
IBS, 92. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1998. xviii + 715 pp. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft: Hauptreihe, 92).
pp. ix-xviii: Calvert Watkins: list of publications 1954-1997.
Rev. by
Alfred Bammesberger, in Kratylos 47 (2002), pp. 51-58.
Brian D. Joseph, in Diachronica 17/2 (2000), pp. 451-458.
Helena Kurzová, in ZCP 52 (2001), pp. 237-246.
Edgar C. Polomé, in JIES 27/1-2 (1999), pp. 210-211.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in IF 106 (2001), pp. 290-298.
I. Indo-European and Celtic dialectology; II. A Gaulish inscribed spindle whorl and Celtic phonology [On the treatment of PIE allophone [z] in Celtic].