A fascinating academic dispute between @thecelticist (@MaynoothUni @MU_Research) & Dr Lara Cassidy (@tcddublin) in a BBC History blog (@DJMusgrove) about how to interpret the "Newgrange incest story" that broke last week.https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/do-early-medieval-irish-texts-shed-light-prehistoric-incest/ …
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Yes, but that's the point: people always think in categories of mass-scale migration. But that's not necessary for language shift. First of all, there are many different possible types of language replacement scenarios. But the important factor in all of them is the exertion...
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...of violence - either direct physical violence incl. killings, or structural violence. It is this violence which leads to language shift.
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