Currents of Pre-Indo-European Researches
The scientific opus of Milan Budimir includes several hundreds of works, books, studies, treatises and articles which may be divided into five big groups.
The first group consists of the works dealing with the research of pre-classical languages and cultures in the Balkans, Asia Minor and the Apennines. Milan Budimir's chief merit in this field relates to the gathering and explaining of the volumnious lexical material of the languages of the pre-Greek Indo- Europeans, as well as to the establishing of the phonetic laws of these languages.
According to the literary tradition, these, pre- Greek ancients are called the Pelasgians (Πελασγοί), but Milan Budimir calls them (Πελάσται), proceeding from the form Πελαστικέ (which appears in the scholias of Homer's Iliad 16, 223), from the onomastic material in the field (Παλαιστή, toponym in Epirus; Palaestinus, older name for Strymon etc.), as well as from some common nouns proved by evidence (Πενέσται, name for the conquered population in classical Thessaly; Πελάσται, name for the farmers bound to the land in Attic).
The second group consists of the works presenting the research concerning special relations between the pre-Greek idioms and the Slavonic languages; more precisely, the ProtoSlavonic language.
The third group consists of the works dealing with the research of the general phonetic laws of the Indo-European languages, especially of the languages in contact.
The fourth group consists of the works dealing with the research in the field of classical literature, with special emphasis on the pre-Greek origin of some literary genres and the European scene.
The fifth group consists of the works researching the cultural relations in the folklore of the South Slavs and the classical peoples; these works are in close connection with the second group of Budimir's works.
(Currents of pre-Indo-European Researches - Source: Pelastian Proto-Slavonic Reletions According to the Researches of Milan Budinir by Ljiljana Crepajac, PhD.)
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