diff --git a/integration-tests/lts/select.test.ts b/integration-tests/lts/select.test.ts
index 7c2c56da2..35f7e360f 100644
--- a/integration-tests/lts/select.test.ts
+++ b/integration-tests/lts/select.test.ts
@@ -500,6 +500,31 @@ describe("select", () => {
     );
   });
 
+  test("named tuples", async () => {
+    const namedTuple = e.tuple({ foo: e.str("bar") });
+    const result = await e.select(namedTuple).run(client);
+    assert.deepEqual(result, { foo: "bar" });
+
+    const pathResult = await e.select(namedTuple.foo).run(client);
+    assert.deepEqual(pathResult, "bar");
+
+    const nestedObjectTuple = e.for(
+      e.enumerate(e.select(e.Hero)),
+      (enumeration) =>
+        e.tuple({
+          hero: enumeration[1],
+          index: enumeration[0],
+        })
+    );
+    const nestedObjectQuery = e.select(nestedObjectTuple.hero, (hero) => ({
+      name: hero.name,
+      order_by: nestedObjectTuple.index,
+    }));
+    const nestedObjectResult = await nestedObjectQuery.run(client);
+    assert.equal(nestedObjectResult.length, 3);
+    assert.ok(nestedObjectResult.every((r) => Boolean(r.name)));
+  });
+
   test("filter by id", async () => {
     const result = await e
       .select(e.Hero, () => ({
diff --git a/integration-tests/stable/fts.test.ts b/integration-tests/stable/fts.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ad45bbb52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration-tests/stable/fts.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+import type { Client } from "edgedb";
+import e, { type $infer } from "./dbschema/edgeql-js";
+import { setupTests, tc, teardownTests } from "./setupTeardown";
+import { $Post } from "./dbschema/edgeql-js/modules/default";
+
+describe("full-text search", () => {
+  let client: Client;
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    const setup = await setupTests();
+    ({ client } = setup);
+  });
+
+  afterAll(async () => {
+    await teardownTests(client);
+  }, 10_000);
+
+  test("basic fts", async () => {
+    const posts = [
+      "Full-text search is a technique for searching text content. It works by storing every unique word that appears in a document.",
+      "To perform a full-text search, the search engine examines all the words in the specified document or set of documents.",
+      "The process of full-text search begins with the user entering a string of characters (the search string).",
+      "The search engine then retrieves all instances of the search string in the document or collection of documents.",
+      "Full-text search can be used in many applications that require search capability, such as web search engines, document management systems, and digital libraries.",
+    ];
+    const inserted = await e
+      .params({ posts: e.array(e.str) }, (params) => {
+        return e.for(e.array_unpack(params.posts), (post) =>
+          e.insert(e.Post, { text: post })
+        );
+      })
+      .run(client, { posts });
+
+    const searchExpr = e.select(e.fts.search(e.Post, "search"));
+
+    const allQuery = e.select(searchExpr, () => ({
+      object: true,
+      score: true,
+    }));
+    const all = await allQuery.run(client);
+
+    expect(all.length).toBe(inserted.length);
+
+    tc.assert<
+      tc.IsExact<
+        $infer<typeof allQuery>,
+        {
+          object: { id: string };
+          score: number;
+        }[]
+      >
+    >(true);
+
+    const filteredQuery = e.select(searchExpr, (post) => ({
+      object: true,
+      score: true,
+      filter: e.op(post.score, ">", e.float64(0.81)),
+    }));
+    const filtered = await filteredQuery.run(client);
+
+    expect(filtered.length).toBe(1);
+
+    const noShapeQuery = e.select(searchExpr);
+    const noShape = await noShapeQuery.run(client);
+
+    expect(noShape).toEqual(all);
+
+    const objectSelectQuery = e.select(searchExpr.object, (post) => ({
+      text: post.text,
+      order_by: searchExpr.score,
+    }));
+    const objectSelect = await objectSelectQuery.run(client);
+    expect(objectSelect).toEqual([
+      { text: posts[0] },
+      { text: posts[1] },
+      { text: posts[2] },
+      { text: posts[3] },
+      { text: posts[4] },
+    ]);
+
+    tc.assert<tc.IsExact<$infer<typeof objectSelectQuery>, { text: string }[]>>(
+      true
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/integration-tests/stable/package.json b/integration-tests/stable/package.json
index 00c37b84f..c1bbb726a 100644
--- a/integration-tests/stable/package.json
+++ b/integration-tests/stable/package.json
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
     "jest": "^29.5.0",
     "superjson": "^1.12.4",
     "ts-jest": "^29.1.0",
-    "typescript": "^5.2.2"
+    "typescript": "^5.2.2",
+    "edgedb": "^1.4.1"
   },
   "dependencies": {}
 }
diff --git a/packages/generate/src/edgeql-js/generateObjectTypes.ts b/packages/generate/src/edgeql-js/generateObjectTypes.ts
index a85c145f2..f0ead4c0b 100644
--- a/packages/generate/src/edgeql-js/generateObjectTypes.ts
+++ b/packages/generate/src/edgeql-js/generateObjectTypes.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ export const getStringRepresentation: (
   }
   if (type.name === "anyobject") {
     return {
-      staticType: [`$.AnyObjectType`],
+      staticType: frag`${params.anytype ?? "$.AnyObjectType"}`,
       runtimeType: [],
     };
   }
diff --git a/packages/generate/src/syntax/hydrate.ts b/packages/generate/src/syntax/hydrate.ts
index 1be07429d..ad6f5991f 100644
--- a/packages/generate/src/syntax/hydrate.ts
+++ b/packages/generate/src/syntax/hydrate.ts
@@ -98,7 +98,11 @@ export function makeType<T extends BaseType>(
 ): T {
   const type = spec.get(id);
 
-  if (type.name === "anytype" || type.name === "std::anypoint") {
+  if (
+    type.name === "anytype" ||
+    type.name === "std::anypoint" ||
+    type.name === "anyobject"
+  ) {
     if (anytype) return anytype as unknown as T;
     throw new Error("anytype not provided");
   }
diff --git a/packages/generate/src/syntax/path.ts b/packages/generate/src/syntax/path.ts
index 0e03b98c0..9ba52ec8f 100644
--- a/packages/generate/src/syntax/path.ts
+++ b/packages/generate/src/syntax/path.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import { $toEdgeQL } from "./toEdgeQL";
 import { $queryFunc, $queryFuncJSON } from "./query";
 
 import type {
+  $expr_TuplePath,
   BaseType,
   Expression,
   LinkDesc,
@@ -308,20 +309,20 @@ const pathifyProxyHandlers: ProxyHandler<any> = {
   },
 };
 
-export function $pathify<Root extends TypeSet, Parent extends PathParent>(
-  _root: Root
-): $pathify<Root> {
+export function $pathify<Root extends TypeSet>(_root: Root): $pathify<Root> {
   if (_root.__element__.__kind__ !== TypeKind.object) {
-    return _root as any;
+    return _root as $pathify<Root>;
   }
 
-  const root: $expr_PathNode<ObjectTypeSet> = _root as any;
+  const root = _root as unknown as
+    | $expr_PathNode<ObjectTypeSet>
+    | $expr_TuplePath<ObjectType>;
 
   let pointers = {
     ...root.__element__.__pointers__,
   };
 
-  if (root.__parent__) {
+  if (root.__parent__ && root.__kind__ !== ExpressionKind.TuplePath) {
     const { type, linkName } = root.__parent__;
     const parentPointer = type.__element__.__pointers__[linkName];
     if (parentPointer?.__kind__ === "link") {
diff --git a/packages/generate/src/syntax/select.ts b/packages/generate/src/syntax/select.ts
index 60371e7fc..b05789a5f 100644
--- a/packages/generate/src/syntax/select.ts
+++ b/packages/generate/src/syntax/select.ts
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ import type {
   BaseType,
   ExclusiveTuple,
   orLiteralValue,
+  NamedTupleType,
+  $expr_TuplePath,
 } from "./typesystem";
 
 import {
@@ -111,7 +113,9 @@ export type exclusivesToFilterSingle<E extends ExclusiveTuple> =
             : orLiteralValue<E[j][k]>;
         };
       }[number];
-export type SelectModifiers<T extends ObjectType = ObjectType> = {
+export type SelectModifiers<
+  T extends ObjectType | NamedTupleType = ObjectType
+> = {
   // export type SelectModifiers = {
   filter?: SelectFilterExpression;
   filter_single?: // | Partial<
@@ -143,7 +147,9 @@ export type SelectModifiers<T extends ObjectType = ObjectType> = {
   //               : never
   //             : never;
   //         }>)
-  exclusivesToFilterSingle<T["__exclusives__"]> | SelectFilterExpression;
+  T extends ObjectType
+    ? exclusivesToFilterSingle<T["__exclusives__"]> | SelectFilterExpression
+    : never;
 
   // | (ObjectType extends T
   //     ? unknown
@@ -368,7 +374,7 @@ export type InferOffsetLimitCardinality<
 //   Modifiers
 // >;
 export type ComputeSelectCardinality<
-  Expr extends ObjectTypeExpression,
+  Expr extends ObjectTypeExpression | TypeSet<NamedTupleType, Cardinality>,
   Modifiers extends UnknownSelectModifiers
 > = InferOffsetLimitCardinality<
   undefined extends Modifiers["filter_single"]
@@ -780,6 +786,21 @@ export type objectTypeToSelectShape<T extends ObjectType = ObjectType> =
       : any;
   }> & { [k: string]: unknown };
 
+export type namedTupleTypeToSelectShape<
+  T extends NamedTupleType = NamedTupleType
+> = Partial<
+  {
+    [k in keyof T["__shape__"]]: T["__shape__"][k] extends PropertyDesc
+      ?
+          | boolean
+          | TypeSet<
+              T["__shape__"][k]["target"],
+              cardutil.assignable<T["__shape__"][k]["cardinality"]>
+            >
+      : any;
+  } & { [k: string]: unknown }
+>;
+
 // incorporate __shape__ (computeds) on selection shapes
 // this works but a major rewrite of setToTsType is required
 // to incorporate __shape__-based selection shapes into
@@ -902,6 +923,21 @@ export function select<
   >;
   __cardinality__: ComputeSelectCardinality<Expr, Modifiers>;
 }>;
+
+export function select<
+  Expr extends TypeSet<NamedTupleType, Cardinality>,
+  Shape extends namedTupleTypeToSelectShape<Expr["__element__"]> &
+    SelectModifiers<Expr["__element__"]>,
+  Modifiers extends UnknownSelectModifiers = Pick<Shape, SelectModifierNames>
+>(
+  expr: Expr,
+  shape: (
+    scope: $expr_TuplePath<Expr["__element__"], Cardinality.One>
+  ) => Readonly<Shape>
+): $expr_Select<{
+  __element__: NamedTupleType<Expr["__element__"]["__shape__"]>;
+  __cardinality__: ComputeSelectCardinality<Expr, Modifiers>;
+}>;
 /*
 
 For the moment is isn't possible to implement both closure-based and plain
@@ -1117,7 +1153,10 @@ function resolveShape(
     } else {
       // for scalar expressions, scope === expr
       // shape keys are not allowed
-      if (expr.__element__.__kind__ !== TypeKind.object) {
+      if (
+        expr.__element__.__kind__ !== TypeKind.object &&
+        expr.__element__.__kind__ !== TypeKind.namedtuple
+      ) {
         throw new Error(
           `Invalid select shape key '${key}' on scalar expression, ` +
             `only modifiers are allowed (filter, order_by, offset and limit)`
diff --git a/packages/generate/src/syntax/toEdgeQL.ts b/packages/generate/src/syntax/toEdgeQL.ts
index 98d0afe90..c4c0dd3b0 100644
--- a/packages/generate/src/syntax/toEdgeQL.ts
+++ b/packages/generate/src/syntax/toEdgeQL.ts
@@ -149,13 +149,16 @@ export function $toEdgeQL(this: any) {
     if (withVars.has(expr)) {
       continue;
     }
-
     // ignore unbound leaves, nodes, and intersections
     // these should be rendered as is
     if (
       !refData.boundScope &&
       (expr.__kind__ === ExpressionKind.PathLeaf ||
         expr.__kind__ === ExpressionKind.PathNode ||
+        expr.__kind__ === ExpressionKind.TuplePath ||
+        (expr.__kind__ === ExpressionKind.Select &&
+          (expr.__expr__ as SomeExpression).__kind__ ===
+            ExpressionKind.TuplePath) ||
         expr.__kind__ === ExpressionKind.TypeIntersection)
     ) {
       continue;