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<journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Cadernos de Linguística</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Revista da Abralin</journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2675-4916</issn>
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<publisher-name> Associação Brasileira de Linguística </publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.25189/2675-4916.2021.V2.N4.ID460</article-id>
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          <subject content-type="Type of Contribution">Theoretical Essay</subject>
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        <article-title>ON <bold id="bold-1">VENDLER’S</bold> FREEDOM OF CHOICE</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Polakof</surname>
            <given-names>Ana Clara</given-names>
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          <email>anaclarapo@gmail.com</email>
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          <name>
            <surname>Oliveira, Jr</surname>
            <given-names>Miguel </given-names>
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          <email>miguel@fale.ufal.br</email>
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          <name>
            <surname>Almeida</surname>
            <given-names>René Alain</given-names>
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          <email>renealain@hotmail.com</email>
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        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidad de la República (UDELAR)</institution>
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      <aff id="affiliation-cacaa336e1c0380ea054bce3cbeed908">
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universiade Federal de Alagoas</institution>
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        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade Federal de Sergipe</institution>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="08/23/2021" />
      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <issue-title>Linguistics Challenges in Open Science</issue-title>
      <elocation-id>e460</elocation-id>
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        <p id="_paragraph-1">In this short essay, we will provide some contemporary remarks to Vendler (1962 and 1974). We will propose that his characterization of the Free Choice Item <italic id="italic-1">any</italic> can be properly explained if we take into account an alternative semantics framework. We will assume with Menéndez-Benito (2010) that it is a universal indeterminate pronoun, and with Aloni (2007) that it involves an exhaustification operator to explain its behavior. We will show that, if we apply this approach, we will be able to explain what Vendler called freedom of choice, lack of existential import, lawlike propositions, among other characteristics. In addition, we will try to do some linguistics in philosophy, which involves trying to explain how a proper explanation of the behavior of FCI may help to better understand some reference related problems. Finally, we will show that if we take into account a speech act theory, as the one proposed by Searle (1985), we may account for some of the FCI particular behavior with regard to freedom of choice.</p>
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        <title>Resumen</title>
        <p id="paragraph-02f994ad19f88df58a61dcaca08d9c4a">En este breve ensayo, haremos algunos apuntes contemporáneos al trabajo de Vendler (1962 y 1974). Propondremos que su caracterización del ítem de libre elección <italic id="italic-444fb6ecd264780242a82c45650a56e1">any</italic> puede ser propiamente explicado si tenemos en consideración el marco de semántica de alternativas. Asumiremos con Menéndez-Benito (2010) que es un pornombre indeterminado universal, y con Aloni (2007) que involucra un operador de exhaustificación para explicar su comportamiento. Mostraremos que, si aplicamos este marco, podremos explicar lo que Vendler llamó libertad de elección, falta de importe existencial, proposiciones tipo ley, entre otras características. Además de esto, intentaremos hacer algo de lingüística en filosofía e intetaremos explicar cómo un correcto entendimiento de los ítems de libre elección nos puede ayudar a entender de mejor manera ciertos problemas relacionados con la referencia. Finalmente, mostraremos que si tenemos en consideración una teoría de actos de habla, como la de Searle (1985), podremos dar cuenta de algunas de las características peculiares que tienen los ítms de libre elección en relación con la libertad de elección.</p>
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        <kwd content-type="">Free Choice Items</kwd>
        <kwd content-type="">Universal Quantification</kwd>
        <kwd content-type="">Exhaustification</kwd>
        <kwd content-type="">Alternative Semantics</kwd>
        <kwd content-type="">Vendler</kwd>
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      <title>Introduction</title>
      <p id="paragraph-c41bcd89d638beb17e931c28732aa30e">Vendler (1974, p. 96) intended to show that a proper linguistic analysis of quantificational expressions could help to capture the “logically relevant features involved in the vernacular use of the particles of quantification”. He tried to show that <italic id="italic-de1b546672bcb7f016974b20de512771">each, every, all</italic> and <italic id="italic-1e3fd813503e9b11aab684153e87129d">any</italic> did not have the same universal meaning. Even though his analysis was properly linguistic, he wanted to provide an empirical basis for some of the traditional problems of analytic philosophy (such as the problem of reference, existential import, and lawlike generalizations). In this short essay, we will show that the application of the alternative semantics framework provided by Menéndez-Benito (2005, 2010) and Aloni (2007, 2019) –which are inspired in Kratzer and Shimyoma (2002)– can account for Vendler’s insights on Free Choice Items (FCI)<italic id="italic-6036918cda3205747e9abec3c8378f5b">.</italic> We will also defend that if we take into account a speech act theory, as in Searle (1985), we may better understand how FCI work.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-6414c20902dc583e595d7f636deea40b">First, we will present some of Vendler’s main findings with regards to FCI <italic id="italic-213881a878e681690546ffdb7843acea">any</italic>. Second, we will show how we can apply a contemporary alternative semantics framework to Vendler’s proposal. Third, we will see how a speech act theory can help us to better understand free choice effects. Fourth, we will present some final remarks.</p>
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    <sec id="heading-f3fb0693b32e1ffe587e8222e2f49f64">
      <title>1. What Vendler taught us</title>
      <p id="paragraph-741c66e5ac8a9845be268ff1abb1457e">In his very thorough analysis of universal expressions in natural languages, Vendler (1962 and 1974) described the behavior of <italic id="italic-63b5c78552191771d51dda6db6d80b4b">any</italic>. In English, <italic id="italic-c573a5d9cf47153bdf6fa8258d13ead2">any</italic> may function as a negative polarity item (1), and as a free choice item (2). Vendler described both behaviors, but since our research is focused on the notion of <italic id="italic-bf8115e8458fcb5488e1b5a0b01a0b5b">freedom of choice</italic>, we will only take into account what he said with regards to FCI <italic id="italic-00f39a3198a90d5e0df6ce8f87d0cb6b">any</italic>.<xref id="xref-f6e83739bfc88ea276ccfdea25e34696" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-f0ecd757fd7fc925aa874771fae4684f">1</xref></p>
      <p id="paragraph-6b5d88b751849cac69b8525ad3431ca8" />
      <list list-type="order" id="list-1">
        <list-item>
          <p>I don't have any potatoes.</p>
        </list-item>
        <list-item>
          <p>Anybody can do that.</p>
        </list-item>
      </list>
      <p id="paragraph-9157fe7f8597435b758a6ceab1b6e396" />
      <p id="paragraph-56e5dfff5f4d35b8135686a1d487dbbf">FCIs have been on the front of the linguistic discussion ever since Vendler (1962). The discussions have been focused on whether they are universal, existential, both, or indefinites (see KADMON, 1993, DAYAL, 1998, HORN, 2000, MENÉNDEZ-BENITO, 2010, among others). Vendler's extensive analysis of <italic id="italic-af5082694759b7b7a1868790a0ee80c3">any</italic> has been responsible for some of those discussions. </p>
      <p id="paragraph-470ce44b77319d27936975ec37f30656">In this section, we will focus on some of the modal contexts in which <italic id="italic-f98e053c874f7a8554d3cb704754f1b4">any</italic> can sometimes appear that were noted by Vendler (1962): subtrigged in declarative statements, unsubtrigged in permissions and generic contexts.<xref id="xref-69f1594e4984848f38effe544fa46bd6" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-a78dc7837d933b52e4859e5563d7e27d">2</xref> The first context that we will consider is related to subtrigging, first analyzed in Legrand (1975), which allows a modified <italic id="italic-8e5b4223066836e7bdde6595ecdbead5">any NP</italic> to appear in episodic statements (DAYAL, 1998). Even though this was not central for Vendler (1962), he did note that subtrigged <italic id="italic-8ad99a8a96b0da61b442674be4c43bd8">any</italic> could appear in declarative contexts with the addition of a modal clause, as in (5):</p>
      <p id="paragraph-f4438c04e5254b9a7b560cfdc2d7d607" />
      <p id="paragraph-d0cf23f2bf7f93345957f4b94e59d0e3">3. *Any doctor told me…</p>
      <p id="paragraph-d65efd44635bc6221031ba58d5c8a9ad">4. *I asked any doctor…</p>
      <p id="paragraph-3712b0d073f9bdf7fbfb422110d7aa17">5. Any raven you may select will be black.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-06011e06af36616877816f822ba0a0cc" />
      <p id="paragraph-d02ecfa2ca9d55c3b943498469092ec9">In Vendler (1974, p.92), he argued that one of the most striking characteristics of <italic id="italic-a2f9acd177b653ba3b2077b5d88229fd">any</italic> is that it cannot appear in “simple declarative sentences", though it can be corrected by introducing a modal clause, as in (5). Basically, he noted that when <italic id="italic-d5f63920e2d8a268f07edb788d4b6190">any</italic> was subtrigged it could be allowed in contexts where it would not normally be allowed.<xref id="xref-954f909ad18615037d01a0177a74364c" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-a2c09c09e9f36f66d8fc997de5aaf638">3</xref> How subtrigging allows FCI in episodic sentences is something that is still discussed (see DAYAL, 1998, CHIERCHIA, 2013, among others).<xref id="xref-83242d9d469bf9f49a20230618129d61" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-46a287dd999b222bc574defb29ddf91c">4</xref> Even if Vendler was not properly interested in subtrigging, he did note that it was important to understand the behavior of FCI <italic id="italic-0a7a29eda2ae9c97b6e870e8ecef3a3c">any</italic>, and the example selected seems to take into account a modal environment.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-0710f11ab049e63a357118153788bb76">The second context we will analyze is the one that involves a permission in the sense that it expands the set of permissible worlds to “include at least one in which the content of the permission holds”, but not a command which would “involve the elimination of all those worlds in which the content of the command does not hold” (DAYAL, 1998, p. 455). Some of the examples Vendler analyzed involved the presence of an indefinite, but count nonetheless as permissions:</p>
      <p id="paragraph-12776cd9e4be674c75952ba9534279f3" />
      <p id="paragraph-d0af57404826639a2d1cde94f1d413fb">6. Take any one of them [offering apples from an      apples basket]</p>
      <p id="paragraph-9f4d62d684879c45680774e331c40a95">7. Take any two (three, etc.) of them</p>
      <p id="paragraph-42c5e20997c561b7be0771dcf3853b0b" />
      <p id="paragraph-95ffcd5c8badc047be3ffb60c7ec5c61">These examples are the ones that lead Vendler to propose that <italic id="italic-ff51b9e88511ffafb95f996f9edafe3e">any</italic> involves what he called <italic id="italic-1ee118e0c3193e677a3c3259b44c9579">freedom of choice</italic> which: “...succeeds in blending indetermination with generality"(VENDLER, 1962, p. 151). Basically, what he is saying may be modernized by defending that the FCI <italic id="italic-6f0881fc2aba819a7eeb5246376cc0ed">any</italic> is a universal indeterminate pronoun (MENÉNDEZ-BENITO, 2005). Thus, we do not get a definite reading, and we can make a choice from all the available possibilities.<xref id="xref-d72986dde5bfbce53ba0e66f0c8b0032" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-e0f74bcccf69e897b264eface2835af9">5</xref></p>
      <p id="paragraph-4dd9db549dbc4430485f99e89738ab15">The last context we will consider has to do with the generic contexts in which the FCI <italic id="italic-5cd8dc4ee9dd2bce6a26aacbb4a8a074">any</italic> may appear. Vendler (1962<italic id="italic-567be9f9420fcd498430c777ba0a034b">)</italic> was interested in characterizing what he called <italic id="italic-24b6f768601443f9abcaf0d25a6e15ad">lawlike</italic> <italic id="italic-26a65da9dd19bbd803facab9421e2f66">propositions</italic>, as (8). They are analyzed as statements which lack “existential import”. In those type of propositions, according to him, we are not committed to the concrete existence of the entity that is being selected by <italic id="italic-f517b7366c2ebea4f5246ca078607b8a">any</italic>. That is, they do not involve anything concrete. He is talking about generic statements.<xref id="xref-206cc82a14c69dc9051b222e8cbeeeb4" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-948146a1468549653bfd37aa5e34ff70">6</xref> Vendler (1962) argues that these propositions, including examples (9) and (10), may be accepted even though there is nothing or no one who has done the things that they are predicated of doing, and they do not involve a commitment nor a belief that it will come into being, as in (11):</p>
      <p id="paragraph-a0201841ef759c1ff239af44d7b2fe6d" />
      <p id="paragraph-681c873abc6dbaf71fb46fab09a3b4a4">8. Anybody trespassing on the premises will be prosecuted.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-19cb00c1ff1a8b36ee6c7820d35dba2e">9. Any nation that conquers the moon will rule the earth.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-e3281d4c09496457b53b00e48bfb44ea">10. Any perpetual-motion engine would violate the laws of thermodinamics, which is impossible.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-38e75a1fd187f247c3dc96a73916169d">11. Anybody who would do that would perform a miracle.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-933a2fa3b98373874e32383553caf8cd" />
      <p id="paragraph-85855ed524a24f193fdb9d7019959404">He argues that what <italic id="italic-6bf21304b82650c7ffa16ad514d7f363">any</italic> does in those cases is introduce a <italic id="italic-d72d5a8cc67b46eb555fc7475ebe7b16">lawlike assertion</italic>.<xref id="xref-23bdebbdc0c7fdb912b3298de37f6487" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-a6eca15e45e27e78a0bb91810e0c9bfb">7</xref> According to him, all general statements involving <italic id="italic-383b1ac6beb0c63b0cdb56625d66f67a">any</italic> lack not only existential import, but also definite reference. In those cases, it may be analyzed as a synonym of <italic id="italic-5d2ace4f64380dd22109828496be07a9">all</italic>, which basically restates its universal behavior. He did not explore the issue further, but the apparition of <italic id="italic-25a811ec9a278b57fae8ed5bddb5e880">any</italic> in generic statements has been discussed by many (see KADMON, 1993, CARLSON et al., 1995, HORN, 2000, DAYAL, 1998, MENENDEZ-BENITO, 2010, among others). </p>
      <p id="paragraph-2aba46a728cf0fe80dcb070205175246">In the next section, we will provide an approach to FCI from an alternative semantics framework which also takes into account the behavior of the Spanish FCI <italic id="italic-e93e7f6cc76552c0ead265ca2f16f609">cualquier</italic>, we will argue that the application of the framework can account for the characteristics Vendler noted, related to subtrigging, permissions, and lawlike propositions.<xref id="xref-72deca2f7715ebf19ed9a74f3ba19195" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-7d2fecc01628237dd1277d04c49bfa19">8</xref></p>
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      <title>2. An alternative semantics approach to Vendler</title>
      <p id="paragraph-136491308a5809499a4d8ffbcabe2046">We will apply an alternative semantics framework inspired in the work of Menéndez-Benito (2005; 2010), and Aloni (2007; 2019). They assume that FCI <italic id="italic-450e43cab58af42b346f7117448b0ca2">cualquier</italic> is a universal indeterminate pronoun which involves two covert operators ∀ (in MENÉNDEZ-BENITO, 2010), and <bold id="bold-e5e87cb5048d569ceadc1c62d544fb99">exh</bold> (ALONI, 2019) in an alternative semantics framework (KRATZER &amp; SHIMOYOMA, 2002).<xref id="xref-ab4812dae492734ece416da118b9d111" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-aa3337364c6c4d47aa094c07b0febc49">9</xref> The indeterminate pronoun <italic id="italic-2a638e33e265361d86919df042f8a014">cualquier</italic> introduces alternatives and is associated at Logical Form to a universal operator ∀ that is taken to operate at the propositional level, which is what we see in (12.1), in which A is the set of alternative propositions. <italic id="italic-f852960cbf5f012467899af0512c78e3">Exhaustification</italic> is an operation that takes an expression <italic id="italic-4e2fb21b5ec032dfe9058a1761830ab3">α</italic> of type e, which provides the domain A, a predicate which provides the property P, and returns an expression <bold id="bold-77c67f191c4d13792a3bcbb69446db8e">exh[<italic id="italic-462174b0a53c988bd19b307dfeea13fc">α</italic> , P],</bold> of type &lt;e, &lt;s, t&gt;&gt;, as in (12.2) where <italic id="italic-16b24be8c4a615b0ef5f5ec390430c2c">α<sub id="subscript-e9d6d66107b7c24e996c5347ad4e05fd"> w,g</sub></italic> = A, and [[P]]<sub id="subscript-3e5a4e2d1b32c10d233b1cb8764d6bb9">w,g</sub> = {P} (ALONI, 2007):<xref id="xref-0f48b27448b0e7e194e689437f58c8a7" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-cc3eec3036809fd5a9273f50f114f501">10</xref></p>
      <p id="paragraph-0d28ec44c13d919e04ac0d815322980f" />
      <p id="paragraph-dabd63977a1536a30cfcc6236272a951">12. Covert operators:</p>
      <p id="paragraph-1">1. [∀](A)={the proposition that is true in all worlds in which every proposition in A is true} </p>
      <p id="paragraph-414919d6f4a2aed9b5779ac1e00fe6f6">2. [<bold id="bold-8677f6013594cef7cf4566c2de76b30b">exh</bold>[α,P]]]<sub id="subscript-3b183913d7042eeb46009274356c92bd">w,g</sub> = {λxλv.x ∈ A&amp;P (x)(v)&amp;∀y ∈ A : P (y)(v) ⇒ P (x) ⊆ P (y)}<xref id="xref-d413015d801489bb790f1c9272f0faca" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-79ac5d08426be2447136da38375a107b">11</xref></p>
      <p id="paragraph-ebb895a251f551990d088b4335814ebc" />
      <p id="paragraph-52714677f4fe7edbadef6bbe78d16c31">Since<bold id="bold-97d44b3840526982bb889eb10afc75c5"> Exh</bold> is of type &lt;e, &lt;s, t&gt;&gt;, we need two type shifts for it to be applied at the IP level, and at the DP level, to explain the behavior of FCI: one which will be propositional, and another which will be entity denoting.<xref id="xref-da839f89884653dce7b0e6be46758765" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-bc59c0978a494a40f2cdadf334201a58">12</xref> When the FCI is unsubtrigged, <bold id="bold-e2050398a9980438eb05b11de01121e8">exh</bold> must apply at the IP and SHIFT<sub id="subscript-983871445e2c10d68a22da0f2bd3b41d">&lt;s,t&gt;</sub> to generate a set of mutually exclusive propositions. When the FCI is subtrigged, it will apply to the DP level, it will SHIFT<sub id="subscript-2a8433731342a45a8068f43cf5eed2c0">e</sub> and ↓ will be applied to generate a set of individuals. This analysis predicts the ungrammaticality of FCI <italic id="italic-dc92b64786901517eaf332a0bbb33e6f">cualquier</italic> and <italic id="italic-050f3404f7d6a1a40551887b33969e47">any</italic> in episodic sentences, as (13), because exhaustification applies at the IP level, where SHIFT<sub id="subscript-3">&lt;s,t&gt; </sub>yields the partitions represented in (13.2). Since each alternative in the partition is stated to be true, it results in a contradiction. It also predicts their grammaticality in modal sentences, as (14), and subtrigged cases, with a SHIFT<sub id="subscript-4">e</sub>, as (15) (examples taken from ALONI, 2019, pp. 5-7).</p>
      <p id="paragraph-63b39137ba78aeec37f0c4e4cb35565c" />
      <p id="paragraph-c88b971785e0c0f6520c9457241e33ff">13. # Anyone walked/ Cualquiera caminó.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-24bd1990de1b76678380e514599b7ae0">1. [∀] ((SHIFT<sub id="subscript-f82b194ef0eeca97ce7b4dadbebefacd">&lt;s,t&gt;</sub> (<bold id="bold-825c80dc21a8ccfc084d9a7ca9f7a643">exh</bold>[anybody, walked]))</p>
      <p id="paragraph-32ea42c7fade0568ddaf05cd865a18a0">2. | nobody walked | only d1 walked | only d2 walked | … |</p>
      <p id="paragraph-eb738c14338a7ae682cdec8af2bb0770">14. Anyone may walk/ Cualquiera puede caminar.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-f0c613facc73ece1c496ffa4d5aef1c7">1. [∀] (◊ (SHIFT<sub id="subscript-4730c306bcf0236dc80348167e8b48a3">&lt;s,t&gt; </sub>(<bold id="bold-0c6f3879a5507384100eb91536ddd0f4">exh</bold>[anybody, walk]))</p>
      <p id="paragraph-6">2. |◊ nobody walked | ◊ only d1 walked | ◊ only d2 walked | …|</p>
      <p id="paragraph-7">15. Anyone who tried to walk walked / Cualquiera que intentara caminar caminó.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-2d1ed3c51eaf178ad5eb77ec58e00909">1. [∀] (↓ (SHIFT<sub id="subscript-b7569721fe1473e4bef5bec85cb808ae">e</sub> (<bold id="bold-dcb534870c5ac6c791b5bc87a0ce4f91">exh</bold>[anyone, who tried to jump]) fell)</p>
      <p id="paragraph-9">2. | d1 fell | d2 fell | …| </p>
      <p id="paragraph-9ef84a3e2d9a3e3f61c7b22cab7fd054" />
      <p id="paragraph-6ff1d7dd76d0b993e0c9b987605cf47f">In (13) and (14), exhaustification undergoes SHIFT<sub id="subscript-2ac6b6204e74d4d5a68220d90c87bdb7">&lt;s,t&gt;</sub> which explains the partitions we get in both cases. In (13), the partition results in a contradiction, because there is an operation akin to <italic id="italic-182be1ef1526e6d6d4ea065fa4924227">only</italic> which yields a contradiction if it interacts with ∀ (MENÉNDEZ-BENITO, 2010). In (14), the derivation is good, because the modal operator expands the possibilities. In (15), exhaustification occurs within the DP, which is why it undergoes SHIFT<sub id="subscript-4bd3b559e9b2bef74870024ce0c3b776">e</sub>. It yields as an output the sum of all the people that tried to jump in <italic id="italic-f90137fe661aa31ad7870546424a9682">w</italic>. ↓ is applied to avoid trivial quantification, and produces a set of singular individuals. This final example accounts for the correction Vendler notes is possible when a modal clause is introduced, in cases as (5), repeated here as (16):<xref id="xref-9cd92706ed993a29356a9149213de246" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-5e91589b305d864d131147d0fceaa03d">13</xref></p>
      <p id="paragraph-6ffd57597816e2b89565543480d5fd7b" />
      <p id="paragraph-bb4e2e3f8ef114fc2868af29d41b9285">16. Any raven you may select will be black.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-b879b0da81f22d70658c6f6fe162bc83" />
      <p id="paragraph-5c0157d1fe5af3c642843e1118abb8be">Aloni (2007; 2019), and Menéndez-Benito (2010) provide an approach to FCI <italic id="italic-586f615ddac76bde1379f01d45a9b840">cualquier</italic> that may deal with modal statements, and can account partially for the data Vendler described. Menéndez-Benito (2010) provides an explanation of the behaviour of <italic id="italic-e6e83284beacc7618e3a7e1efaf20c25">cualquiera</italic> in permissions, such as (17), with the use of the exclusiveness operator. We will follow Aloni (2007) and use <bold id="bold-a8ad726e4ff94a19fcc5ac9e275f29e7">exh</bold>, in (18):</p>
      <p id="paragraph-ddb1f6b081fc67275cd999e85479ad57" />
      <p id="paragraph-9699436f5b12631934b6d48c84acdcbc">17. Juan puede coger cualquiera de las cartas del mazo.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-ac565b929f20870837b5b771e9c4dd22"> ‘Juan can take any of the cards in the discard pile.’ </p>
      <p id="paragraph-3c11912c409bf44d7c07c9cdc6a84c43">18. [∀] (◊ (SHIFT<sub id="subscript-2a11e69a13df451ddfa20e9fce0b8520">&lt;s,t&gt; </sub>(<bold id="bold-6ebbbc674b0416b12471a33a045a0566">exh</bold>[Juan coge, cualquiera de las cartas del mazo]))</p>
      <p id="paragraph-bec4930f4c16e868ae951b20b1c0f0c0">19. |◊ Juan took no card | ◊ Juan took only card1 | ◊ Juan took only card2 | ... |</p>
      <p id="paragraph-0d4bfbea11f284f79e0eb3cb8df649dc" />
      <p id="paragraph-3d8e26590b5e73a17b6a80ebf18d640d">In this case, exhaustification undergoes SHIFT<sub id="subscript-402b8fe8e332a77a5aaf6a3a1abebf3b">&lt;s,t&gt;</sub> which explains the partitions we get in (19) in which the alternatives include only one card. Again, we do not get a contradiction because the modal operator expands the possibilities, and Juan can choose any cards in the deck. This analysis allows us to formalize Vendler's idea with regard to permissions, and it also allows us to take into account his <italic id="italic-9585f2f7d42ee2d75f4eab55bf3f8702">freedom of choice. </italic>This is may happen thanks to the presence of <italic id="italic-29980e00c0c3edb200faeec9471e7b40">◊</italic><italic id="italic-1a24322cd296b28de48592be32479068"> (SHIFT<sub id="subscript-a86be2747be06b32ce67b1f4096664ca">&lt;s,t&gt; </sub>(<bold id="bold-26333e40a888d0e6ee78c3b0b0272165">exh</bold>[Juan coge, cualquiera de las cartas del mazo])</italic> in which the exclusive propositional alternatives generated by the application of SHIFT<sub id="subscript-6f71765e9bed57039c50da3d8e220be6">&lt;s,t&gt; </sub>to <bold id="bold-41f10aea830e4b448c07bbd3bcb57576">exh </bold>are expanded by the possibility modal. Thus, we can apply the universal propositional quantifier that provides us with a given amount of possibilities to choose from.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-c62ee213f4a155da66e8216ba5fdeb2f">This proposal does not seem to allow us to analyze the cases which involve an indefinite quantifier such as <italic id="italic-9fd77aeb65407da5072682430614d184">two</italic>. However, by modifying the generated alternatives it could be accommodated by this proposal, as in:</p>
      <p id="paragraph-69cc2bf87a9c2ac355a4c37a97b4026f" />
      <p id="paragraph-2524a4f49a93e8804db4ed7a6a679fb5">20. Take any two of them [offering apples]</p>
      <p id="paragraph-71e0ab18b151ca9a5a68a207e4145d46">21. [∀] (◊ (SHIFT<sub id="subscript-621637bdf0e32fdda1e25ad655c2c181">&lt;s,t&gt; </sub>(<bold id="bold-1af28f22caee56df681a7605ec38241c">exh</bold>[Take, any two of them]))</p>
      <p id="paragraph-59091bf3334520ad9aaf46b23a465072">22. |◊ He took no apples |◊ Juan took only apple1 &amp; apple2 | ◊ Juan took only a2 &amp; a3| ...|</p>
      <p id="paragraph-b2c65110ab4668164fc3ac9d3a2f3eed" />
      <p id="paragraph-0d1512638eb4de5b2d78ee7c9f2e8c0c">Even though Aloni (2007) did not take into account this possibility, the alternative semantics framework can accommodate Vendler's analysis with such small modifications.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-1a75251ceee7110d6cbd3321c72be161">Finally, we should explain how an alternative semantics approach can account for the generic contexts Vendler (1962) encountered, such as (23). We will propose that, once we have the partition of the logical space provided by the application of SHIFT<sub id="subscript-f237d1404f7e007bea807c73cb316652">&lt;s,t&gt; </sub>to <bold id="bold-1fd758c7e9341f0863ec3633e12b1041">Exh</bold>, the generic operator applies to the set of propositional alternatives generated by <bold id="bold-3db742d3670ac12caa152d3676372e3e">Exh</bold> and provides us with a generic interpretation similar to the one found with indefinite generics. GEN is a modal, and does not commit ourselves with the actual existence of a singular proposition (see CHIERCHIA, 1998: 381). The idea is that, in a sentence like (23), there are two sources of genericity, one that will be indicated by the verbal aspect, which is the one that triggers GEN, and another with the FCI <italic id="italic-6126cbed1647fd5479341135c605b1ec">cualquier</italic>, which is the one that triggers ∀, as in Dayal (1998, p. 447). Thus, the universal quantifier is quantifying over possible propositions, which are generated by the application of GEN to the alternatives in (24) and no contradiction arises:</p>
      <p id="paragraph-2fb436ee4de6b0fcee9412d842e13214" />
      <p id="paragraph-53151cbc6b99ffa102986bf3afdda807">23. Any violation will be prosecuted.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-a969b9e829575a89e5661943dc7cc2c7">24. [∀] GEN ((SHIFT<sub id="subscript-c1f9219cd81fa81c9ec173d4e4e3b9f2">&lt;s,t&gt; </sub>(exh[any violation,prosecuted]))</p>
      <p id="paragraph-84351712fbfc09d66bfebd3742cec551">25. |no violation prosecuted | only violation1 prosecuted | only violation2 prosecuted |...|</p>
      <p id="paragraph-229569985845212a6927b3087324f568" />
      <p id="paragraph-3512675fe04ab3236c6bde3bcac3da9a">This representation allows us to explain the availability of the universal sentence above which has a sort of generic flavor, but involves nonetheless universal quantification. Thus, it is not just the application of GEN, which is modal in nature and a part of the verbal aspect (KRIFKA et al.,1995<italic id="italic-6997aa2f8f8df75f6f274c873af40f33">)</italic>, CHIERCHIA, 1998, among others). It is the addition of GEN in these contexts, while also having ∀, what allows us to explain the behavior of <italic id="italic-88d737e20344b5a0598318745764b606">any NP </italic>in these generic contexts. This combination can also explain the behavior of negative generic sentences (POLAKOF, 2021, p. 11), such as <italic id="italic-873047b2e05910c5bd58e868bfe6dde5">No cualquier jugador puede jugar en Boca /‘Not any player can play in Boca.’</italic>, as well as the necessity generic sentences analyzed in Menendez-Benito (2010, p. 54), such as <italic id="italic-d562b1103955b224c7cc6e6e0d1ce51e">Tienes que contestar cualquier pregunta./‘You must answer any question.’</italic>, among others.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-915208428ca5bf672e83ed0a29213a0e">In addition to this, the possibility of the derivation being made on the basis of the propositional alternatives generated, which includes <italic id="italic-a0b1a6cf1ea98140a58bc67ca3b889e7">no violation is prosecuted</italic> seems to reflect the fact noted by Vendler (1962, p.156) that <italic id="italic-7edd6f0fdf9774d154a323003e03b45b">lawlike generalizations</italic> are not rendered false even if there is no one or nothing that satisfies the predicate. Thus, his “lack of existential import” may be accounted for in the alternative semantics framework which we have applied in this discussion.<xref id="xref-71b340ef946b0f596408e30916d3c0b7" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-2cf88b5ee6d8da7420d9fe23b6ce471f">14</xref></p>
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    <sec id="heading-ca1c2d4097375ab47589194b05624b3e">
      <title>3. Free Choice Items and Reference</title>
      <p id="paragraph-9cd6ce415ef9acde25b2324c7ba1d0ac">Vendler showed that a proper description of how natural language quantifiers such as <italic id="italic-3dc5231c48b4c55f2ba5a1b75d31cd58">any</italic>, <italic id="italic-da254fcc9292ec49534401ba8f99e335">all</italic>, <italic id="italic-40d69bfd36affdda28fb77e9222a0d2a">each</italic> and <italic id="italic-347f907651ecbb4e83dbf94a194b0f68">every</italic> had to be taken into account to give a correct characterization of the logical features which are relevant in natural language. His descriptions were taken into account by some logicians, such as Hintikka (1980), who proposed that <italic id="italic-d944aaf9b4ef1dea733cfc92d9c3fc9a">any</italic> and <italic id="italic-583da41213d1a573f77d54b6c93808d4">all</italic> differed regarding their scope properties. We have shown that nowadays we can account for the behavior of FCI with an alternative semantics framework, but we have said nothing with regard to reference. The account here presented assumes a semantic approach to FCI, which introduces universal propositional quantification, and exhaustification which may be used to account for the relevant logical features of natural language quantifiers. This can explain the semantic behavior of FCI, such as <italic id="italic-7">any</italic> and <italic id="italic-8">cualquier.</italic> However, it does not explain the role the FCI plays in the understanding of natural language nor does it explain anything about the relationship between the use of language and the world. </p>
      <p id="paragraph-bc5a37c55f7ee3bc3a7311fa15beea1f">If we assume that FCI involve universal propositional quantification, it cannot be seen as a variable, as indefinites in Heim (1982). We can ask ourselves, then, whether it plays any role at all with regard to reference (understood here as a relationship between the use of an expression and a concrete particular in the actual world) or not. And the answer must be that, since it involves universal quantification, it does not refer to a concrete particular in the actual world. It is not involved in definite referential phrases when it is subtrigged, it does not refer in permissions or in generic contexts (see RECANATI, 2004). Thus, if we are confronted with the philosophical question of reference and referential expressions, we may defend that FCI do not form referential expressions.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-63d593161aa75b386452de6111c5aca0">Even though FCI do not involve referential expressions (in the sense that they do not relate to a concrete particular in the actual world), there is something to be said with regard to how the use of a statement involving a FCI interacts with the actual world. That is, there is something to be said with regard to the speech acts that we make with FCI. Those speech acts can be related to agency and free choice. The first examples that we will consider are taken from Rioplatense Spanish (in POLAKOF, 2021), they appear in episodic statements, and involve the interaction of negation and <italic id="italic-ed09f9e468384e8f1c4726188a3fb5f5">cualquier</italic>:<xref id="xref-73253a501d477b7db20839b08effbd87" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-8960f04327c9c179a19f6ce6f999bded">15</xref></p>
      <p id="paragraph-d37f25cd13718a8be782883d9155d8a6" />
      <p id="paragraph-7b10f7038e0b39308b770a2b45d49995">26. No agarré cualquier historia y la produje aunque no tuviera nada que ver con lo que creo. </p>
      <p id="paragraph-2dfaaa12047acc35e7dd6f8ad4c3bd1f">‘I did not grab any story and produced it even though it had nothing to do with what I believe’</p>
      <p id="paragraph-463e6a3657d9d3a7561efa1042f3ace2">27. No enviaron a cualquier periodista a cubrir el viaje de el candidato, sino a sus informativistas principales.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-9ec11ab01bd386070216fcc04cf51109">‘They did not send any journalist to cover the trip of the candidate, but their main newsreporters.’</p>
      <p id="paragraph-d8d4a25989a6d2b0e41960ef6264babf" />
      <p id="paragraph-26ac0b1169d64012358f4dbf0d3071bd">We proposed (Polakof, 2021, inspired in DAYAL, 1998) that these examples can be reinterpreted as involving a covert modifier which presupposes a selection, such as <italic id="italic-6f06b41d4d8d741817e28bf33226fc98">that I could choose</italic>. In the alternative semantics framework we are using, it would amount for the following:</p>
      <p id="paragraph-95e7c7fbee8ec4a2dfdcd214b5f7e231" />
      <p id="paragraph-9760e437360fcd2cfbff858734368902">28. No agarré cualquier historia (que pudiera elegir)…</p>
      <p id="paragraph-969b25275b25670e876a622be13a8326">1. [NEG][∀] (Yo agarré ↓ (SHIFT e (exh[cualquier historia, que pudiera elegir]))</p>
      <p id="paragraph-86d3574f5a94bc22c7a48988c286fcb7">29. No enviaron a cualquier periodista (que pudieran elegir).</p>
      <p id="paragraph-ebcaff004a659435d91fbafd13d3f976">1. [NEG][∀] (Ellos enviaron ↓ (SHIFT e (exh[cualquier periodista, que pudieran elegir]))</p>
      <p id="paragraph-5f889bed8390240108ed97c1a08221a1" />
      <p id="paragraph-f8f557dff2397da44a31983c0d842074">SHIFT<sub id="subscript-f1ca99f14bc00421b27a396aeddf2ed9">e </sub>(<bold id="bold-152c3f25fa4110a5df67963d816d8c02">exh</bold>[cualquier historia, que pudiera elegir]) yields the maximal collection of histories I could choose in <italic id="italic-65f90e277a9cb195b1bf255b146fb6d7">w<sub id="subscript-5f57571dfa92f1c8a94d198e2e4704dd">0</sub></italic>, and SHIFT<sub id="subscript-a87a443ebb9904c41690137a49ad41f8">e </sub>(<bold id="bold-2363d53b87ac67d613ccbab064ae75e1">exh</bold>[cualquier periodista, que pudieran elegir]) the maximal collection of journalists that they could choose in <italic id="italic-1b090498bcdc0452a638255b271eebcd">w<sub id="subscript-8a6f6e52ac776415061b18979babe42b">0</sub></italic>.<xref id="xref-f3b3c3a916284032e4613f9974bbc73e" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-194b390eb6a8173cbc3c382684b71a6d">16</xref> To avoid vacuous quantification, ↓ is applied and produces a set of individuals (following ALONI, 2007). Then, it combines with the denotation of the verb to produce the set of alternatives presented before. Since the set occurs in the scope of a negated universal operator, we get the desired interpretation: not every story was chosen by me or not every every journalist was sent by the bosses.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-dd8a9dfb8f63197c3be8c91462ea734d">The previous representation correctly predicts that the agent did not select all of the possible alternatives. She selected the stories that she wanted to select, and they sent the journalists that they wanted to send. Thus, the free choiceness effect is maintained within the scope of negation. Even when all of the possibilities are available, we may choose between them, and this is reflected by the application of <italic id="italic-1d596965d5a63e0ca549f7c7ee68a06c"/><bold id="bold-cabae84355fbe9aa6e3fd2795185fb88">exh</bold>. However, this strictly semantic analysis, does not shed light about the actual use the speaker makes of these statements. </p>
      <p id="paragraph-9a96f5fdfd1d55bb63557caaa55c6acb">These statements may be classified as <italic id="italic-8bc96008614ce7c166f5c77bfc87ea7a">assertives</italic> (SEARLE, 1985). They commit the speaker to the truth of the asserted proposition (SEARLE, 1985). The asserted proposition is connected to a concrete entity which is freely chosen by the agents of the statement, and that fact differentiates FCI assertions from non-FCI assertions in which the freedom of choice is not relevant.<xref id="xref-b9e95e4d9fc58fbe84d165ee84f7f85a" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-30c331653ef19136f8c0a9354c9ce4ee">17</xref> In addition to this, the assertion involving a FCI also reflects the fact that there was a concrete entity that was chosen: there was a particular story, and there were some journalists. Thus, even though, there is no definite reference, we may find a relation to the actual world. </p>
      <p id="paragraph-0e6b089ce1b541394ce8e7965ca1dbdc">The second set of examples that we will deal with involve permissions, as in (in POLAKOF, 2021):</p>
      <p id="paragraph-82aada12ddca6144e47bb82c136f059f" />
      <p id="paragraph-1a8f8f2515fe4573b23654c417847ca6">30. Podés sacar cualquier auto.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-068575a8562454a7fc99d720cdba3735"> `You can take-out any car.' </p>
      <p id="paragraph-a95e0c6ad2bcd40d7dc5d2ee09aa8949" />
      <p id="paragraph-9d6cebc82fc9f27f9e2d649e785ea590">Permissions involve a different speech act, which could be classified in Searle's speech act theory as a <italic id="italic-d676e3c1266fb9e65a27fd89857e7164">directive. </italic>In a directive, the speaker wants the hearer to do something (SEARLE, 1985, p. 13). The speaker says something to the hearer and expects the hearer to act in accordance to what she said. In addition to it being a directive/permission, it seems reasonable to assume that, with the use of the FCI, the speaker may be signaling that any conceivable possibility is an option, and instructs the hearer to consider a wide domain of quantification (PENKA, 2016, p. 316).</p>
      <p id="paragraph-2461a8f5cdf3082791acfac9be366aab">Thus, when I give someone the permission to take any car they want, I'm expecting a perlocutionary effect which involves the selection of any car in the actual world (or in that particular situation). Thus, as a speaker, I influence the hearer to do something, by saying something (DAVIS, 1980, p. 43). I intend the hearer to choose the particular car that she wants. And, in languages such as English, it may be even more than one, as in the examples provided by Vendler (1974):</p>
      <p id="paragraph-faae5b9773e7d032839608b57939f742" />
      <p id="paragraph-6869ec2524f9d352f24d18b27ad455ce">31. Take any one of them [offering apples from an apples basket]</p>
      <p id="paragraph-9c7e3e688c3e40f0bf6263dec4c2244f">32. Take any two (three, etc.) of them</p>
      <p id="paragraph-1553a3ce8dae45af7a15541b2a812428" />
      <p id="paragraph-a7562ad36d216f6439c9a486a342b6e2">Thus, even if FCI does not involve any definite reference at all, they do involve a link to the world which should be differentiated from others. In the case of assertives (made possible by subtrigging), the use of a FCI commits the speaker to the truth of a proposition which involves her as a free choosing agent of an action in which she chooses freely a particular entity she wants to choose. In the case of directives, there may be a particular perlocutionary effect, and the speaker has the intention that the hearer knows that any conceivable possibility is an option. </p>
      <p id="paragraph-c3bffb16dc0c208809f645efba272fb8">In the case of generic contexts, or <italic id="italic-b864c3f365e6e3ddd1e06b807fcac2e5">lawlike</italic> <italic id="italic-79f9915e5ea79c3aa8261b5b63c9119e">propositions</italic>, there is no link to the actual world, but a relation to possible worlds which could explain why Vendler noted that lawlike propositions, as example (8) <italic id="italic-7229a30b70787b32908bf0cd5575326a">Anybody trespassing on the premises will be prosecuted</italic>, are not rendered false if no one enters the premises. As we noted earlier, since GEN is a modal, it allows us to speak about possible propositions, and it does not commit ourselves with their existence in the actual world nor does it commit ourselves with the realization of any of the arguments of the proposition. </p>
      <p id="paragraph-2717695480bad816ebdebb7af273de05">If we leave the semantic domain, and move into the speech act theory, we can try to classify examples as (8) in Searle’s speech act theory. They cannot be assertives because they do not involve a description of an actual state of affairs.<xref id="xref-d13b4ce9ce2533980b30d9d75f0343a6" ref-type="fn" rid="footnote-a347d7026a7587af612adeed606b3796">18</xref> They cannot be directives because they do not intend to have a perlocutionary effect. We do try, when we use it, to match the language to the world. Thus, they can be classified as <italic id="italic-01907e6fab7f4dea377b93bdb451c1a9">declarations </italic>(SEARLE, 1985, p. 16). We can assume that, when someone uses a sentence as (8) they declare that if someone trespasses the premises, she will be prosecuted. Nonetheless, the declaration in itself does not involve a commitment with the existence of someone who trespasses. Thus, they do not involve reference to the actual world. If they are classified as <italic id="italic-d3bbbcc315a5c9c91e2ad7d945061efc">declarations</italic>, we can account for the pragmatic effects Vendler noted of statements such as (8) which he calls a “lack of existential import”. This can be translated to a more contemporary terminology, and it can imply that when we use a generic statement we do not need to commit ourselves with the existence of any of the entities involved in the proposition. Since existence is not important in declarations, it seems reasonable to classify Vendler’s lawlike propositions as declarations.</p>
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    <sec id="heading-ba455694c5be80db57bad35b528b54f4">
      <title>4. Final remarks</title>
      <p id="paragraph-94ef73b9de539a339af7836a224ee673">Vendler (1962; 1974) described many of the characteristics that FC <italic id="italic-66031ed18a7f3538f5a8bff32e85f41c">any</italic> has. He did not have the proper resources to provide a formal approach to his insights. We have shown that an alternative semantics framework, as the one proposed in Menendez-Benito (2010) and Aloni (2007), can account for such properties. It can explain why it can sometimes appear in episodic contexts, in modal contexts and in generic contexts. It can explain the freedom of choice by introducing alternatives. Overall, we have shown that from a linguistic perspective the developments made have been such that Vendler's insight were taken into account, which is something that cannot be denied.</p>
      <p id="paragraph-a5462f9f0714184dceaca3fdf5e06a95">We have shown that an alternative semantics framework can explain the lack of definiteness that Vendler saw in FC <italic id="italic-97463748d3d089105d060e0fc60c7157">any</italic>. Free Choice Items are indeterminate pronouns which may be linked to a universal propositional operator, and to <bold id="bold-3fbc4e72d9cd0e67c4f4197e3ed725cc">exh</bold>. Their combination with these covert operators allows us to explain most of Vendler's observations, and in addition we may defend as he did that the linguistic behavior of natural language quantifiers should be taken into account by philosophers who research language related philosophical problems. </p>
      <p id="paragraph-32779b89210cd6f0bc4ce73352011c6d">We have defended that definite reference is not at stake when FCI are taken into account, because they involve indeterminate universal quantification. We have shown that if we take into account a speech act theory, we can explain how FCI can be related to the world. In the case of assertives, not only are speakers committed to the truth of the asserted propositions, but to their freedom of choice. When we use a subtrigged <italic id="italic-1370e8d192ed5beab3c78161f7ff444d">any NP</italic>, we are specifying to the hearer that we had the option to choose freely. In the case of directives, not only is there a perlocutionary effect wanted, but also the speaker signals the hearer that she may consider any conceivable option. Thus, the hearer, as an agent, can choose whatever she wants (of the conceivable options). In the case of declarations, which involve generic contexts, the speaker tries to match the speech act to the world. Thus, the use of a generic statement does not involve a commitment with the existence of concrete entities. </p>
      <p id="paragraph-b5d1b7a1780586897ae80b2bc9e2e6c3">Overall, we have tried to show that we have contemporary tools to take into account Vendler’s insights with regard to freedom of choice. We have also tried to show that semantics does not exhaust the effects of Vendler’s freedom of choice. Pragmatics needs to be considered, if we want to fully understand that said phenomenon. This short essay also tries to provide a pragmatic approach to freedom of choice, by analyzing different speech acts in which FCI appear (in Spanish and English). Nonetheless, more research is needed to explain all the phenomena that FCI involve.. Finally, we would like to defend, as Vendler did, that Philosophy should consider the behavior of FCI to try to solve problems which are related not only to reference, but to free will, to intention, and to agency. </p>
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      <title>5. Acknowledgements</title>
      <p id="paragraph-de7fd8ab451404e0a6d2ed7ea8bea204">This research was possible thanks to the grant FCE_3_2018_1_148810 by ANII (Uruguay). I would also like to thank the people at Chá das 5, organized by Marco Ruffino at UniCamp.</p>
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      <p id="paragraph-3">ALONI, Maria. Indefinites as fossils: The case of wh-based free choice. 2019, ms.</p>
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      <p id="paragraph-8">CARLSON, Greg; PELLETIER, Francis, editors. <bold id="bold-2">The Generic Book</bold>. University of Chicago Press. 1995.</p>
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        <p id="paragraph-06f6f820d598643591d92fdf66ddfbdc">As one of the reviewers noted, there are theories that unify the behavior of NPI <italic id="italic-e680aa5b45d29a1a01ee809a0aa84094">any</italic> and FCI <italic id="italic-2">any</italic> (KADMON &amp; LANDMAN, 1993, CHIERCHIA, 2013). Chierchia (2013, p. 57) defends that, since roughly half of the 110 languages that Haspelmath (1997) analyzed “have morphemes that uniformly cover Negative Polarity and Free Choice environments”, they form contiguous regions in our logical space. Thus, according to Chierchia (2013), we should approach both meanings in a unified manner. We assume an <italic id="italic-3">ambiguist</italic> approach. That is, we consider that NPI <italic id="italic-4">any</italic> is different form FC <italic id="italic-5">any.</italic></p>
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      <fn id="footnote-a78dc7837d933b52e4859e5563d7e27d">
        <label>2</label>
        <p id="paragraph-788e7e922c4e7833f63627762b4afae6">Vendler did not use the term <italic id="italic-853ca29da16f4dd0341b3a032bd8e3f7">subtrigging</italic>, because the term was not available. We decided to use the term, because it is the contemporary term used to explain the behavior of subtrigged <italic id="italic-70e2917c27fccf577ac3b717769af718">any,</italic> which is a phrase that contains an <italic id="italic-7238f2a9176ccaa76afd2091eeb03563">any NP </italic>which is modified by a relative clause.</p>
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      <fn id="footnote-a2c09c09e9f36f66d8fc997de5aaf638">
        <label>3</label>
        <p id="paragraph-7a386ecdd6b89182e407b3b97d101b04">As Luiz Arthur Pagani (p.c.) noted, the subtrigging involves a modal clause which seems to interact with episodicity. Even though this is true, the fact is that it is subtrigging which makes (5) grammatical.</p>
      </fn>
      <fn id="footnote-46a287dd999b222bc574defb29ddf91c">
        <label>4</label>
        <p id="paragraph-6d1e1abed6aa151959fbd58fa3032ac9">Contemporary approaches deal with subtrigging in different ways. They may, for instance, propose that subtrigging allows for a type shift e which allows any to appear in episodic contexts, as Aloni (2007 and 2019), or they may propose that subtrigging introduces a modal to the restriction of the free choice nominal, as Dayal (2009), and Chierchia (2013).</p>
      </fn>
      <fn id="footnote-e0f74bcccf69e897b264eface2835af9">
        <label>5</label>
        <p id="paragraph-e5c15fdef80e17e8928cfc3ef4da853d">There is another notion which is relevant for Vendler which is <italic id="italic-9cdd58e08865d07faa39faa6e16be397">incompleteness</italic>, but it is a problematic notion. According to him, when we use an <italic id="italic-0ab8df3e8a8c8e5bfabb4559032090c4">any NP</italic> the domain of any is <italic id="italic-885face93c1e9f55dcfaf3f40785d4b8">incomplete</italic>. That is, it can never amount to the full domain. Thus, we could not choose all of the apples in those types of situtations. However, one reviewer noted that she had been in situations where someone had selected all of the apples. This issue needs further testing, and proper experimentation. Nonetheless, since it is not directly related to freedom of choice we will not deal with it in this short essay.</p>
      </fn>
      <fn id="footnote-948146a1468549653bfd37aa5e34ff70">
        <label>6</label>
        <p id="paragraph-218d363d6d261e0b3961f7ec50db9c0f">We should note that when Vendler (1962) wrote this article, there was still no work done on genericity, neither was there work on genericity when it got republished in Vendler (1974). The first comprehensive study on genericity was Carlson (1977).</p>
      </fn>
      <fn id="footnote-a6eca15e45e27e78a0bb91810e0c9bfb">
        <label>7</label>
        <p id="paragraph-554a53c493039ff6bf2ef7a0fa53a080">The idea that there is a relationship between <italic id="italic-674b24881ac2477ce919bde22854d485">any</italic> and lawlikeliness was taken from Ryle (1949). </p>
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      <fn id="footnote-7d2fecc01628237dd1277d04c49bfa19">
        <label>8</label>
        <p id="paragraph-597f5fbe0ad75f1b767c524cff9937dc">Our approach is based in Menéndez-Benito (2010), and not on an existential account of FCI (such as the one Arregui, 2006, proposes for Spanish). This is due to the fact that it seems to be a more Vendlerian approach, because it is a universal approach to the freedom of choice. Nonetheless, another viable alternative would be to take into consideration Chierchia (2013) who takes Dayal (2009) into account. We chose Kratzer &amp; Shimoyama (2002) alternative semantics framework because it introduces propositional alternatives, it solves the issues at a propositional level, and it does not involve implicatures. It provides a viable alternative to what Vendler proposed, and it may be used to explain the interaction of negation and <italic id="italic-c398cab123f66c1d9783986855d6bf2c">cualquier</italic> without using metalinguistic negation, see POLAKOF (2021).</p>
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      <fn id="footnote-aa3337364c6c4d47aa094c07b0febc49">
        <label>9</label>
        <p id="paragraph-3fec348eb5bdb94c38c2fea4d081913a">This is not the only way in which alternative semantics can be approached (see Pires de Oliveira &amp; Chierchia 2020). However, it is the one that we will follow. </p>
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      <fn id="footnote-cc3eec3036809fd5a9273f50f114f501">
        <label>10</label>
        <p id="paragraph-5b639b01763f6417497f79c000986384"><bold id="bold-d8ad863ae622afa58a79de612ba35e05">Exh</bold> is used to derive free choice effects also by Fox (2007) and Chierchia (2013), among others. See Chierchia (2013) for a criticism of the use that Aloni (2007) makes of <bold id="bold-c16bef4e01b537481514f63ba65e3b45">Exh</bold>.</p>
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      <fn id="footnote-79ac5d08426be2447136da38375a107b">
        <label>11</label>
        <p id="paragraph-c4e01a30f9ece9f2ccba89d0eea8cafd">Aloni (2007, p. 6) builds exhaustification on the notion of exclusive values by Zeevat (1994) which she characterizes as: </p>
        <p id="paragraph-8b5bcd745b9849f9829104573cafccc5">1. A value x exhaustively satisfies a property P wrt a domain A iff x is in A, P(x) is true, and for all y in A: if P(y) is true, then P(x) entails P(y).</p>
        <p id="paragraph-7204d11efc1c750ccf93a7b5dc85facf">She (<italic id="italic-a3f44b25c79daea63609c40ac767f681">ibid</italic>.) explains that normally exhaustive values are maximal plural entities, and her example is:</p>
        <p id="paragraph-07d4dbf26642b60881049e2ad6922c20">2. </p>
        <p id="paragraph-2">1. <italic id="italic-ff132a7834a918744df4e9d82db82499">A</italic>: people <italic id="italic-3502567d061185cae91c5d271a946503">{ 0, / a, b, d, a + b, a + d, d + b, a + b + d}</italic></p>
        <p id="paragraph-afdf2247391825e689637ed9daa1f1d1">2. <italic id="italic-c8472d586dd0384ce26f4d04c80ef5de">P</italic>: falling <italic id="italic-78c0ab9f325c0496221b5fe382d2b9ae">{ 0, / a, b, c, a + b, a + c, c + b, a + b + c}</italic></p>
        <p id="paragraph-4">3. <italic id="italic-7d71a6db347aad5fd188ad548374b926">x</italic>: the max collection of people that fall <italic id="italic-6">a + b</italic></p>
        <p id="paragraph-12dd9187e1ba888821210e2fae4de628">There we can see that the plural entity <italic id="italic-eff4b3b5cf120d2394ac84747246ca39">a + b </italic>satisfies exhaustively the property of falling as it was specified in 2.2 with regards to the specified domain of people in 2.1. This is due to the fact that, according to Aloni (ibid) “a + b is the unique x in the domain such that (i) x falls and (ii) that x falls entails that y falls, for each other falling members y of the domain”. That allows her to propose the formalization which we have in 12.1, where: [<bold id="bold-f86433bfafee1cb0d121467db18e7c4d">exh</bold>[α,P]]]<sub id="subscript-1">w,g → </sub>{λxλv[x exhaustively satisfies P wrt A in v]} (see Aloni, 2007, p. 6).</p>
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      <fn id="footnote-bc59c0978a494a40f2cdadf334201a58">
        <label>12</label>
        <p id="paragraph-9ad91dd885233b091a6fe28e180d1ed2">The proposal arises to explain the similarity in meaning and the different behavior of free relatives and wh-interrogatives, which is why two type shifts are needed in addition to <bold id="bold-54e70cf568bb24054b60965cca966041">exh</bold>. SHIFT<sub id="subscript-c1c74d6e4bb50c944b9ad313c7786234">e</sub> is an entity denoting type shift which may be applied to <italic id="italic-612ee00f79bd10cc7e7b5aaac4461974">Peter read what Ana wrote</italic>, and SHIFT<sub id="subscript-2">&lt;s,t&gt;</sub> is a propositional one which may be applied to<italic id="italic-d245e0e0d7ba626ceb4d8fb80a3ac13b"> Peter knows what Ana wrote</italic>. See Aloni (2007) for a more detailed account, and Polakof (2021) for an application of Aloni (2007).</p>
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        <label>13</label>
        <p id="paragraph-809879cd1781f0df1806c7029c4b0965">Aloni (2019) argues that the necessary association of FCI with <bold id="bold-de1bf32dbf5ff5bff0fef986d87eb45e">exh</bold> and ∀ may be found diachronically. We will not deal with the diachronic conjectures that are dealt with in Aloni (2019).</p>
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        <p id="paragraph-65cbf6ce4fe9d073ed8bf919aab73f72">It could also be accounted for with other proposals, such as Dayal (1998), Chierchia (2013), to name some. Nonetheless, we do think that this alternative is better to account for Vendler’s insights.</p>
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      <fn id="footnote-8960f04327c9c179a19f6ce6f999bded">
        <label>15</label>
        <p id="paragraph-34722521b60e4a0ccbb08679b468511f">The examples we are using come from Rioplatense Spanish because our empirical research involved the Rioplatense Spanish variety (POLAKOF, 2021). However, we think that this could be extended to all languages which allow for the interaction of negation and FCI. It can also be extended to non-negated statements in English, such as the following example: <italic id="italic-574aeb5965b3f8f59cf1cbe905b93628">After the dinner, we threw away any leftovers </italic>(DAYAL, 1998: 446). </p>
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        <p id="paragraph-1400d7d5e19f3959d2e5b9905a831783">For an analysis of how the subjunctive interacts with the FC <italic id="italic-30993364e874ba84bb0871e45c828eec">cualquier</italic>, see Rivero (2011).</p>
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      <fn id="footnote-30c331653ef19136f8c0a9354c9ce4ee">
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        <p id="paragraph-a7c10f1607ad86e7f0522a7dd0196178">Note that, if the assertion were <italic id="italic-81799a29486a58e48f24cbae9aa860b8">no agarré ninguna historia/I did not take any (NPI) story,</italic> there would be agency but no freedom of choice (in Vendler’s sense). This is more clear if no negation is involved, as in <italic id="italic-c9a1c9016ea9a95f540f1d207344a6df">agarré una historia/I selected one story, </italic>where the only thing that matters is the intention the agent had when she picked up the story, and not that she did it freely. </p>
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        <p id="paragraph-e0aa5117562893880277cc45885c7533">We should note that Vendler (1974, p. 89) said that examples as (8) involved <italic id="italic-4e4568fbb9ae878223e6747affc8df43">lawlike assertions.</italic> Thus, he recognized the pragmatic side of the discussion. Nonetheless, even though they take the form of an assertion, we defend that they should be classified as <italic id="italic-36a2399e8e16116e97cc233fa71aa42e">declarations</italic> in Searle (1985).</p>
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