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A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick Beaton illustrates, over three millennia Greek speakers produced a series of civilizations that were rooted in southeastern Europe but again and again ranged widely across the globe. In The Greeks, Beaton traces this history from the Bronze Age Mycenaeans who built powerful fortresses at home and strong trade routes abroad, to the dramatic Eurasian conquests of Alexander the Great, to the pious Byzantines who sought to export Christianity worldwide, to today's Greek diaspora, which flourishes on five continents. The product of decades of research, this is the story of the Greeks and their global impact told as never before

"For many, 'Greece' is synonymous with 'ancient Greece,' the civilization that gave us much that defines Western culture today. But how did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of the ancients in the first place and then define an identity for itself that is at once Greek and modern? This book reveals the remarkable achievement, during the last three hundred years, of building a modern nation on the ruins of a vanished civilization--sometimes literally so. This is the story of the Greek nation-state but also, and more fundamentally, of the collective identity that goes with it. It is not only a history of events and high politics; it is also a history of culture, of the arts, of people, and of ideas"--Back cover

ABSTRACT: This article undertakes a biographical reading of the poetry of Xu Lizhi, a Chinese migrant worker who committed suicide in 2014. It analyses his poems published posthumously in the 2015 anthology "La machine est ton seigneur et ton maître". The article interrogates the poetry through three specific objectives: (1) to explore the representation of the poet's despair and distress as an immigrant worker; (2) to explore the concept of death before actual death, as experienced in a life of suffering; and (3) to explore the motif of suicide as prophecy. Thus, the poet's lived experiences offer insights into the psychic state that underlies the literary ingenuity expressed in his poems.
RÉSUMÉ : Cet article propose une lecture biographique de la poésie de Xu Lizhi, un travailleur migrant chinois qui s'est suicidé en 2014. Il analyse ses poèmes publiés à titre posthume dans l'anthologie de 2015 « La machine est ton seigneur et ton maître ». L'article interroge la poésie à travers trois objectifs spécifiques : (1) explorer la représentation du désespoir et de la détresse du poète en tant que travailleur immigré ; (2) explorer le concept de la mort avant la mort réelle, telle qu'elle est vécue dans une vie de souffrance ; et (3) explorer le motif du suicide en tant que prophétie. Ainsi, les expériences vécues par le poète permettent de comprendre l'état psychique qui sous-tend l'ingéniosité littéraire exprimée dans ses poèmes.

Previous studies demonstrate that some aspects of the phonological grammar of heritage Spanish
speakers in the United States are monolingual-like while other aspects show influence from
English (Ronquest & Rao, 2018). The syllabification of vowel sequences is an interesting trait to
study in the Spanish of U.S. heritage speakers due to the tendency in English phonology to separate
vowels into separate syllables and the contrasting preference for diphthongs in Spanish. Studies
across several language pairs have shown that second-language learners use the syllable structure
of their first language in their second language, creating non-native-like patterns. We have little
understanding, however, about whether heritage speakers syllabify like monolingual Spanish
speakers or if they rely on the structure of the dominant language in their environment. The present
study compares the syllabification judgments of 54 heritage speakers to those of 40 monolingual
speakers. The results show that heritage speakers have monolingual-like syllabification intuitions
for verbs ending in -ear and -iar overall, but heritage speakers who have spent less than two years
in their parents' home country syllabify differently in reading versus listening tasks. Lexical
frequency did not affect the results, indicating that syllabification intuitions are robust even in
unfamiliar words.