<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear colleagues, <br><br>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. <br><br>To attend the talk via Zoom, please use the following link: </span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'arial', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/61149986899?pwd=V8ZAayWfRfdgHIQObA2jrIxKExRYnb.1" rel="nofollow nofollow noopener noreferrer noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #005a95; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/61149986899?pwd=V8ZAayWfRfdgHIQObA2jrIxKExRYnb.1" data-mce-style="color: #005a95; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/61149986899?pwd=V8ZAayWfRfdgHIQObA2jrIxKExRYnb.1</span></a></span></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'arial', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'arial', 'helvetica', sans-serif;">We hope to see many of you there!<br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'arial', 'helvetica', sans-serif;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'arial', 'helvetica', sans-serif;">Best, <br>Madeleine Butschety, on behalf of the Center for Cognitive Science of Language</span></span></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><div style="font-family: 'aptos', 'aptos_embeddedfont', 'aptos_msfontservice', 'calibri', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'aptos', 'aptos_embeddedfont', 'aptos_msfontservice', 'calibri', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">>>ABSTRACT</span></div><div style="font-family: 'aptos', 'aptos_embeddedfont', 'aptos_msfontservice', 'calibri', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'aptos', 'aptos_embeddedfont', 'aptos_msfontservice', 'calibri', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">"The nanosyntax and semantics of complex numerical expressions in Czech"</span></div><div style="font-family: 'aptos', 'aptos_embeddedfont', 'aptos_msfontservice', 'calibri', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'aptos', 'aptos_embeddedfont', 'aptos_msfontservice', 'calibri', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="il">Marcin</span> Wągiel</span></div><div style="font-family: 'aptos', 'aptos_embeddedfont', 'aptos_msfontservice', 'calibri', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'aptos', 'aptos_embeddedfont', 'aptos_msfontservice', 'calibri', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'aptos', 'aptos_embeddedfont', 'aptos_msfontservice', 'calibri', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'aptos', 'aptos_embeddedfont', 'aptos_msfontservice', 'calibri', 'helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">In this talk, I will investigate the meaning and structure of basic numerals such as <i>tř-i </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., <i>tr-oj-ic-e</i> (`group of three'), <i>tr-oj-í</i> (`three kinds of'), <i>tr-oj-e</i> (`three collections of'), <i>tr-oj-it-ý</i> (`triple') and <i>tr-oj-násobn-ý</i> (`three-time'). The core idea is that (i) even simplex numerals such as <i>tř-i </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.</span></div></div></div></body></html>