Abstract
Azerbaijani, like many other languages, has a class of negative polarity items denoting minimal measures (along dimensions such as size, length, duration, value, weight etc.), called minimizers. This paper presents an overview of this group of expressions, compares them to minimizers in the western European languages, in particular English and Dutch, identifies the various domains in which these minimizers may be used, and discusses their distribution across polarity-sensitive contexts such as negation, conditional clauses, questions, etc. The distribution we found, on the basis of both corpus data and native speaker judgments, is very similar to that of minimizers in English or Dutch, especially when differences are factored out which are due to the fact that Azerbaijani has strict negative concord, whereas English and Dutch do not. To this end, we distinguish two types of minimizers for Azerbaijani, negated minimizers preceded by heç bir ‘not one’, and minimizers preceded by bir only.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the Alrakis II programme of Erasmus Mundus for funding the research of the first author during the first half of 2015, and two anonymous reviewers for their excellent advice.
Appendix List of abbreviations
- 1sg
1st person singular
- 2sg
2nd person singular
- 3sg
3rd person singular
- 1pl
1st person plural
- 2pl
2nd person plural
- 3pl
3rd person plural
- agr
agreement marker (on nouns)
- poss1
1st person possessive
- poss2
2nd person possessive
- poss3
3rd person possessive
- abl
ablative case
- acc
accusative case
- aor
aorist tense
- cond
conditional mood
- cv
converb
- dat
dative case
- fut
future tense
- gen
genitive case
- ger
gerund
- imp
imperative mood
- join
joining morpheme
- loc
locative case
- neg
negation
- pass
passive voice
- past
past tense
- pl
plural
- pot
potential mood
- pp
past participle
- pres
present tense
- subj
subjunctive mood
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