Goedegebuure - OI Linguistics Workshop 2010 1/6 “The pragmatic function Focus in Hittite” Petra Goedegebuure (pgoedegebuure@uchicago.edu ) 1. Linguistics versus philology All information from Friedrich’s Hittite grammar on the pronoun ap - (see Friedrich, HE I, § 249-251): Friedrich only focuses on the demonstrative force of ap -, and has nothing to say on ap - as stressed pronoun. 2. Stressed pronouns and cognitive linguistics? — NO Studies on reference in discourse: GIVÓN 1983; ARIEL 1990, 1996; GUNDEL et al. 1993; CORNISH 1999; YAN HUANG 2000. GUNDEL ET AL . (1993: 275) Givenness Hierarchy: contains the six cognitive statuses that are relevant to the form of English referring expressions: in focus > activated > familiar > uniquely identifiable > referential > type identifiable (it) that this this N stressed pronouns that N the N indef this N a N GUNDEL 1993 does not contain examples of stressed and unstressed pronouns. number of stressed pronouns in corpus total of referring expressions in corpus cognitive status Chinese ta 0 240 —