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free choice referent
an unspecified referent in certain contexts, whose identity can be freely chosen without affecting the truth value of the utterance. Example: in After the fall of the Wall, East Germans were free to travel anywhere, anywhere is a free choice pronoun expressing a referent -- a place -- toward which the agent in the clause, the East Germans, is free to choose to travel. (Section 3.5)
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Hierarchy
Is subtype of