| Summary: | Work on anaphoric event reference has focused on 'do so, do it, do this', and 'do that'. This paper reports on an analysis of a heretofore unstudied form of event reference, 'do thus'. Using a corpus of naturally occurring examples, I present evidence that 'do thus' occupies the final slot in a hitherto incomplete paradigm for English event anaphora. Syntactically and semantically, 'do thus' is similar to 'do so'; but at the discourse level it patterns more like 'do this' and 'do that'. The data point to 'thus' as an adverbial demonstrative on par with nominal 'this' and 'that', which, when paired with 'do', can be used for complex event reference.
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