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Introduction. In spite of the fact that major researchers of Gregory Palamas' theology, Robert Sinkewicz and John Demetracopoulos, offered detailed explanations of when and for what 'The chapters on physics' of Gregory Palamas were written, it seems that this issue was not finally resolved.

Methods. This article, therefore, has two goals. The first is to answer the question why in 'The chapters on physics' the polemic against Barlaam and Akindynos, although it occupies a large part of the treatise, is presented as a part of the broader theological and philosophical program of Palamas, and what role does the cosmological part (1–14 chapters) play in the structure of the treatise. In the author's opinion, such a statement of the question will allow us to understand what Gregory Palamas was guided by when writing the text. The second objective is to offer a social portrait of the addressee of this treatise, delivering some of representatives of the stratum on which the Palamas was oriented.

Analysis. In answering the first question, special attention is paid to chapter 81 of the treatise, which, in the author's opinion, reflects the intent of the entire text, namely, to demonstrate that the logic according to which something indivisible can be thought of as divisible without ceasing to be indivisible, works not only in the case of essence and energy, that is, in theology, but also in cosmology and anthropology. In answering the second question, the focus is on the figure of Matthew Kantakouzenos, who was at the time of writing the treatise in conflict with his father, emperor John VI Kantakouzenos, thereby causing discord in the political party, which at that time was a defender of the ideas of Hesychasm. It was Matthew Kantakouzenos, in the author's opinion, or the social stratum behind him, who could be the recipients of the treatise.

Results. The analysis of the treatise and its historical context shows that it was written largely for political reasons as a program text of Hesychasm, equipped with natural science and philosophical tools, since its recipients were both the broad educated strata of Byzantine society and direct participants in political life in the middle of the 14th century.

International audience Siwi shows gender/number agreement of medial demonstratives with the addressee. Such phenomena are cross-linguistically very rarely reported, and are not discussed in major surveys of the typology of demonstratives. However, within person-oriented demonstrative systems, such marking amounts to an iconic representation of addressee anchoring. The pragmatics of Siwi demonstratives thus cast light on the nature of the mapping from person to place that such systems reflect. Comparative eastern Berber data suggests that demonstrative addressee agreement may be more widespread than the literature reflects.

AbstractThis article analyzes addressee agreement (allocutive agreement) in Magahi, an Eastern Indo‐Aryan language. Magahi finite verbs encode the honorificity (social status) of the addressee, in addition to encoding the person and honorificity of the subject. Magahi addressee agreement is special in two respects. First, it is associated with finiteness: it is available in all finite clauses, main and embedded. Second, addressee agreement and subject honorification combine features for spellout, indicating that heads involved in both phenomena are syntactically adjacent. I claim that the covert syntactically expressed representation of the addressee, which undergoes addressee agreement, is relatively low in the clause structure: it is a coordinate of FinP, the layer just above TP. I further propose that the functional head associated with Magahi addressee agreement is the Fin head. The proposal diverges from previous analyses, in which the locus of addressee agreement is the highest projection of a clause (Speech Act Phrase or Context Phrase), found primarily in root clauses. This study implies that the addressee is syntactically present in every finite clause. Crosslinguistic differences (e.g., root–embedded asymmetries) depend on what syntactic category acts as a probe in a language.

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En este texto se revisita el concepto de autor a la luz de reflexiones como las suministradas por pensadores como Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt o Claude Lefort. El objetivo no consiste en continuar las tesis de «la muerte del autor» o las posiciones de la «estética de la recepción», sino en problematizar la misma idea de soberanía y en repensar la autoría desde un concepto diferente, si bien etimológicamente muy cercano, como es la autoridad. Para ello, se releerá el concepto de autor desde una perspectiva que, al menos parcial y potencialmente, se hallaba presente en su sentido premoderno, se explorará la compleja relación que el autor y su obra tienen con la tradición y la herencia y, finalmente, se examinará el rol activo y productivo que pueden llegar a desarrollar los lectores. ; In this paper, I will retake the concept of author from the reflections and the perspective of thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt or Claude Lefort. I do not intend to defend here the thesis of «the death of author» or the assumptions of the «reception theory». Instead, I want to problematize the notion of sovereignty in itself and to rethink the concept of authorship from the point of view of authority. To this purpose, I will reread the concept of author from a perspective that, at least partially and potentially, was present in its pre-modern sense, I will tackle the intricate relationship that both author and its work have with tradition and heritage, and finally I will examine the active and productive role that readers can have.