On what anaphora is. W. shows that the prevailing assumption that anaphora is a syntactically based phenomenon is inadequate. An account of the use of pronouns in particular has to be based on a notion of speaker reference and on a unified description of lexical entries for pronouns that specify their meanings (which have a low conceptual content). Thus, anaphora by means of pronouns is characterized as a type of use where pronouns serve to refer to referents that the speaker considers to be retrievable from the universe-of-discourse.