Vers une interprétation sociale de l'art celtique : l'exemple de la céramique estampée en Bretagne au second âge du Fer by Gadea Cabanillas de la Torre

“…However, it has evolved considerably in recent years. « Celtic » art from the La Tène period has often been compared to a form of language, but this approach comes up against many practical problems, raising the questions of context and meaning. …”
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« Nos a Gulielmo victi... » ou histoire, linguistique et idéologie by Christophe Bord

“…In English-speaking countries, particularly in Britain, linguistic historiography as applied to English often seems dominated by rather unscientific sentiments of a nationalistic nature and does not hesitate to go to great lengths to negate the loss of the Germanic character of the language. To achieve this goal it rather systematically adopts four main strategies: besides overemphasizing the importance of function words in the English lexicon, it ignores the Celtic substratum and downplays the different varieties of the French superstratum, while boosting the Old Norse adstratum for purely historical reasons of Germanic relatedness. …”
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