Examples of abav ABOVE .1 Primitive Syntax

266 YA:1032 No, go myself. I get one burlap bag. You know, tie the two ear on the end, eh? Cut the little puka, you know. Put the rope over. Tie the bag and tie this end, eh? Put ’em over MY shoulder, see? And then, we carry with us. As we catch shrimp, we put ’em inside. Catch fish, any kind, we put ’em inside there. The shrimps, we no have to. We put ’em inside the basket. Put ’em on the side. But the fish, we gotta put inside, you know. Carry the fish with us. YA:1046 Before, in the river, you can build your own dike, but not now. Before, we used to build the dike in the riverside. We no need go catch fish. The dike like this, high, eh? We live one place where the water come over, you know, on the top. We put one big bamboo basket outside the other side, the waterfall. Nighttime, we tie the basket against the rock. And right on the waterfall — down below get big stones hold up the basket, and the water come, shoot down, and go through the basket. The water no can stay, eh? YA:1046 Lower, eh. The water go over, see. The following two examples are probably the most plausible examples of ova serving as an allolex of ABOVE: NC:128 Faster, eh? Then you go plant and then go back come again, plant, go back come again. You get long place for go one time go down. You jump over the bank, keep on jumping over the bank all the way. OC:14 You see this school here, they have a mango tree right back of this here. Now the boys been throwing stone class and hid down there. Of course they didn’t see that boys but happened one day I went out there, you know, the other boy he throw that stone over the mango tree and I follows this boy here and the boy run away from here and the teacher saw me. She reported to Mrs. Fraser but she didn’t see the other boy, you see, but I didn’t throw the stone, the other fellow throw the stone. But she reported so they call me in after recess and they get a ruler. She said, “My boy, I hate to touch you with anything and I know how you are and very, very....” Throwing a stone ova a mango tree certainly implies the stone was ABOVE the mango tree. Consider, however the following sentence: YA:1026 Yeah, go on the side of the beach. On the ocean side, get one small beach, eh? The horse can go only, see? After that, they started making one road. Before, no more road, see? Bumbai, when we moved down to Kahaluu, oh, they get. They build one horse buggy road. They use a four-wheel wagon, just like in the Mainland they call it “stagecoach.” Four wheel with the four horses pull, eh? Pull the load. Go all the way up, that. Then they make the road climb up the mountain, go over the Pali, eh? Go the other side, downtown. That’s how they get horse and buggy. If one goes ova the Pali, it does not imply that one went ABOVE the Pali. I conclude therefore, that ova should not be considered an allolex of ABOVE.

5.35.3 Examples of abav

5.35.3.1 YOU ARE abav There is a single canonical example of YOU combining with abav. BB:015 You know Kukuihaele side, when you go below the road, eh get plenty stone. But when you stay above the main highway around warehouse side, eh around there no more stone, you know. Good land all the way up to... 5.35.3.2 SOMEONE IS abav The following are three near-canonical example contains abav together with the HCE semantic molecule him. FD:251 And then had two Japanese boys. They used to stay down where Araki is. Uh, the father used to be Oshiro. I don’t know what Oshiro is that. He used to stay above William. Get one house 267 above the road, eh? They used to stay there. And where William is farming now, that o-san used to get taro patches. But over there, my dad have few patches too. That’s from the Bishop. You see how plenty taro my father used to take care? He’s a big taro farmer. You know where Roy is now? Where George Farm used to have. FD:260 Everybody have their own taro patch. Even my son-in-law, Kanekoa. Where he is now, all the places where he get now. Above him get the grandparents. They used to have their own. And then he stay below now, where his working man, Dave. That’s all belong to his mother. Until today. That’s where he lives too. MT:1188 But I cannot. Jeri Ooka’s going back to Kauai, he’s going to try to see what can be done. So it has to be something in the water, because everybody has it, has the rot problem. I’m at the top of the valley, way in the top, I get the State land. Nobody is above me. I have the rot. How come? And right below me is Roy Toko, George Farm, everybody gets it. 5.35.3.3 SOMETHING IS abav The following three near-canonical examples contain abav together with an HCE term decomposable in terms of SOMETHING: MM:330 Very few, yeah. As you go down from Glaisyer’s place, you know, kind of downhill. When you hit the cane field, you go down little ways, they get road that goes to the left. One go straight down, one goes to the left. The one goes to the left, there’s a reservoir over there. The road is above the reservoir or below the reservoir. That, I don’t remember good. But anyway, that road that goes to the left is to go to the Portuguese Camp. The following non-canonical examples support the semantic proximity of abav to ABOVE: NC:137 Yeah, about three feet, I think, above the floor. They get the horse like that, two. And then they place the board on top. NC:158 Takeo and I were in front and I was holding the baby, about less than two years old at the time. So I tell my wife, “Climb the tree.” So my boy climbed way up high and the old man climbed the second one and my wife cannot get up because the tree will come down, so she stood on one tree, has the branch, a little over one foot above ground and she stayed there. She stayed there. Get two trees right near each other. She hold, hang on the tree. Then Takeo climbed the other tree that’s about a good 30 to 40 feet away from where my wife was.

5.35.4 Summary