Now thinking about late antiquity, I wonder whether we should be looking more at the 'pressures' imposed on spoken varieties of Latin by bilingual speakers (whether the other language is Gaulish or Aquitanian or Berber).
I don't have an answer yet, but this is a feature of language use in the late Roman West that is piquing my interest....
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