English has some ambiguity with its possessive pronouns, but the level of ambiguity could be taken to a weirder level in this way:
reflexive third person ownership or other third person referent: singular possessive pronoun
Thus "he sees his house" can have 'his' either be reflexive or not, but "they see his house" also can signify reflexive possession.
reciprocal ownership uses a third person plural possessive pronoun
Thus "they see their house" can mean 'they see some other persons' houses' or 'they see each other's houses'.
I don't think this kind of idea is entirely unrealistic.
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