TY - JOUR AU - Polakof, Ana Clara PY - 2021/08/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - On Vendler’s freedom of choice JF - Cadernos de Linguística JA - Cad. Linguíst. VL - 2 IS - 4 SE - Theoretical Essay DO - 10.25189/2675-4916.2021.v2.n4.id460 UR - https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/460 SP - e460 AB - <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">In this </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">short essay</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">, we will provide some contemporary remarks to Vendler (1962 and 1974). We will propose that his characterization of the Free Choice Item </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><em>any</em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"> 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 take into account 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, and try to explain how a proper understanding 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 free choice.</span></span></span></p> ER -