New developments in the semantics of noun phrases in Slavic languages

The paper gives a general overview of the theoretical approaches to the semantics and syntax of nominal phrases. It shows how the recent work on this topic in formal Slavistics has contributed to the further development of the theory. The following issues are addressed: What counts as reliable evidence for the assumption of the DP-layer in articleless Slavic languages? How do Slavic languages express the distinction between strong definiteness based on anaphoricity and weak definiteness based on situational uniqueness? What is the semantic concept behind definiteness contributed by NPs in the topic position? What is the meaning of special collective nouns such as Czech dvojice ‘a group of two people’ and Russian complex numerical measure nouns such as strogrammovka ‘a 100-gram glass’? What do nominal roots in Slavic languages denote before they enter different syntactic environments and how do different syntactic environments determine their interpretation? Is there evidence for the assumption of the  functional projections NumP and ClassifierP in addition to NP and DP in Slavic languages?