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number agreement links a salient, nontrivial semantic Apart from their number properties, verbs and pro-nouns seem to have little in common. The processes behind pronoun use tend to be explained in pragmatic such as himself in John shaved himself (these are the of these puzzles in terms of an account of agreement implementation. On this account, shared number meanings can initiate number agreement and shared linguistic mechanisms can complete the morphological realization of number on verbs and pronouns. The ma-jor differences between verbs and pronouns in their uage * Corresponding author. Fax: 1-217-244-8371.categorization (one involving number) to a salient, nontrivial grammatical system (one involving depen-dencies among the parts of utterances). In English, the most familiar kinds of number agreement involve verb