Comparative Concept: free choice pronoun (cxn)

free choice pronoun (cxn)

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Alias(se) free choice pronoun
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Definition

a pronoun that expresses a free choice referent. 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)