Rescuing Existential Free Choice Items in Episodic Sentences
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Note here that this subtrigging strategy does not work for all types of FCIs. Chierchia (2005) points out that, in Italian, subtrigging rescues the universal type of FCI qualsiasi, but not the existential counterpart uno qualsiasi. The same contrast holds for other Romance languages like Spanish: adding a relative clause improves the universal FCI cualquier in (4), but not the existential FCI un N cualquiera in (5).
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