[[offerings]] | [[poetics]] | [[strophic-style]] --- - Characterized by (1) [ellipsis of a verb](ellipsis-of-a-verb.md); (2) [pronominalization](pronominalization.md); and (3) [minimalist expression](minimalist-expression.md). - > Whether there is a genetic relation between the Italic and Vedic formulas is perhaps unknowable. But more important is to recognize in these two sets of ritual formulas like grammatical responses, using cognate grammatical features, to like religious, pragmatic, and symbolic cultural features, which may themselves be cognate. -{[[watkins1995]]p228} ## Biblio [[watkins1995ch19]] ## Branch [[italic-elliptic-offerings]] [[indic-elliptic-offerings]]