[PLing] Talk by Marcin Wagiel on November 28, 13:15 CET

[Madeleine Butschety]

Dear colleagues, 

we cordially invite you to a talk by Marcin Wągiel as part of the Jezik & Linguistics Colloquia series. His talk entitled "The nanosyntax and semantics of complex numerical expressions in Czech" (abstract: see below) will take place this Thursday, November 28, at 13:15 CET at lecture room P7 at the University of Nova Gorica (Kompas building), and online. 

To attend the talk via Zoom, please use the following link: 
[ https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/61149986899?pwd=V8ZAayWfRfdgHIQObA2jrIxKExRYnb.1 | https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/61149986899?pwd=V8ZAayWfRfdgHIQObA2jrIxKExRYnb.1 ] 

We hope to see many of you there! 

Best, 
Madeleine Butschety, on behalf of the Center for Cognitive Science of Language 

>>ABSTRACT 
"The nanosyntax and semantics of complex numerical expressions in Czech" 
Marcin Wągiel 

In this talk, I will investigate the meaning and structure of basic numerals such as tř-i (`three') and derivationally complex numerical expressions in Czech (e.g., Dočekal 2012, Caha 2013, 2017, Dočekal & Wągiel 2018, Wągiel 2020, 2023, Grimm & Dočekal 2021). The latter share the numerical root with the corresponding basic numeral, but also involve additional morphology, e.g., tr-oj-ic-e (`group of three'), tr-oj-í (`three kinds of'), tr-oj-e (`three collections of'), tr-oj-it-ý (`triple') and tr-oj-násobn-ý (`three-time'). The core idea is that (i) even simplex numerals such as tř-i (`three') are in fact complex syntactico-semantic objects involving reference to numbers and even more primitive abstract components of meaning (Wągiel & Caha 2020, 2021), (ii) it is possible to have a single compositional mechanism that allows us to derive different kinds of part-whole structures and (iii) the compositional nature of numerical expressions is reflected in their complex morphological form in a systematic fashion. The analysis will propose a system that combines standard compositional semantics utilizing various measure functions (e.g., Krifka 1989) with the nanosyntactic model of spellout (e.g., Starke 2009, Caha 2009) in order to capture meaning-form correspondences attested in Czech numerical expressions. 
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