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.