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. In my second qualifying paper, I show how the distinction is much more complicated than one of specificity. Read the manuscript [here][https://mksnigaroff.github.io/files/2023SamoanManuscript.pdf]. This project is ongoing; comments are welcome!