Specificity in the Samoan article system

(elicitation materials for scopal ambiguities)

This project centers on the little-understood semantic distinction between the Samoan articles le and se, historically characterized as the specific and non-specific articles. I show that the distinction between these two articles is much more complicated than any traditional notion of ``specificity”. Read my qualifying paper on the topic here, as well as a presentation at AFLA 32 here.