We have indeed come to the end of our work. In preparing this volume, we hoped to address the need for an integrated approach to referring, one that brings together functional grammar and cognitive linguistics within a model of context and one that is informed by empirical evidence. We wanted to offer our perspective on building bridges between the traditional literature on reference and more usage-based functional approaches to language. Most of all, we felt there was a need to provide an account of atypical uses of reference given that most literature on reference concentrates on typical reference, frequently using isolated expressions or experimental tasks. What we hope we have shown throughout the volume is that referring expressions matter.