Coreference and Representationalism Paul Dekker The compositional interpretation of structures in discourse has raised the question whether some level of representation is indispensable in the analysis of the semantics of natural language. In this paper we formulate and motivate three notions of representationalism (a strong, a medium or midweak, and a weak one) and discuss to what extent existing formal semantic frameworks qualify as (strongly, midweakly or weakly) representational. To be published in: Reference and Anaphoric Relations,, ed: Klaus von Heusinger und Urs Egli, Kluwer, forthcoming,