for sharing their semantics/pragmatics expertise, to Paul Smolensky for further discussion, and to the LSA and GALANA audiences for their comments. And last but not least, to NSF for financial support (grant BCS#0446954) which made this study possible. 1 A second study targeting comprehension of French pronouns (Legerstee & Feider, 1986) is limited to 1 st and 2 nd person singular pronouns which eschews the very issue the present paper is mostly concerned with, namely the interpretation of 3 rd person pronouns.