Free choice items as fossils

(2) a. Somebody called. b. Logical form: ∃x ∈ D : φ c. Ignorance implicature: speaker doesn’t know who • Typology: Many languages have developed specialized forms for such meanings: – Free choice indefinites: Spanish cualquiera, Italian qualunque, Czech kterýkoli, Hungarian akarki, ... – Epistemic indefinites: Russian to-series, Czech si-series, German, irgend-series, Spanish algun, ... • Main hypothesis: Different indefinite forms as fossilizations of different pragmatic effects.