@nntaleb @peterfrankopan @caitlinrgreen been posting interesting stuf on twitter about links btw British Isles and the Med in ancient times
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@caitlinrgreen What's your take on the possibility of proto-English having been spoken in eastern Britain before the Romans? -
@holland_tom More than a little sceptical, but interested! Think need to be v wary, but at same time worth noting that isotope evidence > -
@holland_tom does strongly support idea of ppl moving to Britain from these areas in Bronze+Iron Age etc--next blog post on this, in fact :) -
@holland_tom Will be follow-up to previous post on S.Iberia/N. African ppl in Bronze Age-early medieval Britain :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/657981747154522112 …
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@caitlinrgreen@holland_tom some claim that the VSO (Verb-subject-object) order in Insular Celtic languages is due to contact with Semitic -
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@caitlinrgreen That would be of interest to@nntaleb
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