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It is known that bare NPs can be interpreted as an indefinite description or a definite description in Japanese. A question arises as to whether a bare NP in Japanese can always obtain an intended anaphoric definite reading from the previous context. The present work attempts to answer this question. More specifically, we will explore the occurrences and nonoccurrences of anaphoric definite bare NPs in terms of the Givenness Hierarchy of  Gundel et al. (1993) . We will first discuss the advantages of adopting the Givenness Hierarchy to the studies of occurrences of bare NPs and show how the Givenness Hierarchy accounts for cases in which the use of a demonstrative determiner for anaphoric definite NPs is either optional or infelicitous. We will then examine apparent counterexamples for the Givenness Hierarchy, namely cases in which a bare NP cannot refer to an individual that is introduced in the previous context. We will argue that these apparent counterexamples are due to competing readings arising from various independent sources and demonstrative determiners are used to force intended anaphoric definite readings, as argued in  Gundel (2010)  and  Gundel et al. (2012) .

On the occurrences of anaphoric bare NPs in Japanese