Against the Identification of Anaphora and Presupposition

Since van der Sandt and Geurts have put forward and extensively applied the notion of a fundamental identity of presupposition and anaphora, something like a universal consensus seems to have developed that this view is basically correct. Supposing that it is, and further supposing that it entails an empirical hypothesis, there are a number of facts that have so far remained unaccounted for. This paper presents some of these facts and argues that more differentiated notions of anaphora and presupposition may well be more fruitful for further research in the semantics-pragmatics interface.