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MY:1468 No more fresh water inside the ocean, no more, you know. You got to get fresh water
come into the salt water, then you get. If no more fresh water, no more ogo. So, I used to go get and I used to give out.
MY:1470 The highlight of the zoo was the lion. Lion and the elephant, the monkeys. You go tease ’em, the guy, oh, they get mad, you know. The lions and the ostrich. You go tease ’em, oh, boy,
they get mad. The caretaker scold you.
MY:1477 And then, Mrs. King, she get big ruler. You do something no good, bang, she whack you.
I used to be the rascal one. You know, the kamani leaf, you know how big, eh? Kamani leaf, eh? When I see dog shit, I cover the kamani leaf on top there. The guy come pick ’em up, he got to pick ’em up, eh?
He don’t know. But when he pick ’em, he mad like hell. “Who wen do that?” It is difficult to identify any intonational or prosodic clues which mark this construction. Probably,
the only possible linguistic marker are the clauses themselves, which are transparently related to one another as condition and consequence.
Sapoz as a marker of conditionals is very rare in the corpus, there are only two examples: JB:67 Well, if I was Ilokano and my father is a Visayan, my father have to speak the Visayan word
and the Ilokano guy have to say the Visayan dialect that how my father is saying. Now, supposing the other fellow is Ilokano and he says the Ilokano dialect. My father couldn’t speak the Ilokano dialect
because it’s kind of hard for him. The only one that he knows is the Visayan language. That’s the reason why he got to speak only Visayan with the Ilokano fellow. Whoever the Ilokano fellow may be.
OC:8 You know, he stayed there until about one o’clock Sunday to collect all the boys who get
newspaper they want return so they can give a piece of paper. Suppose you but twenty paper, you only sell sixteen, you got four more so he give you one good for next day.
It would therefore be difficult to regard it as a widespread exponent for IF. The form if, however, is widespread throughout the continuum and is therefore our best candidate.
5.40.3 Examples of if
5.40.3.1 if Clause, Clause There is only a single NSM valence to investigate, and there are numerous canonical examples. Here are
a few:
AK:603 If you want poi, we eat poi. But most time we have rice or, we rather have. AK:630 Right now in stores, get plenty kookoolau tea. That good for anything, all kind. And you
have this mamaki is good for high blood pressure. Mamaki is a really good medicine for high blood pressure. If you can take it the fresh is okay. But if you rather take when dry all right, the leaves. That
really good for high blood pressure. If you get real high high blood pressure you take mamaki; you take that thing go right down.
BB:017 Stop. Down below red you see, you gotta put your red up. Then the guy goin’ stop.
Otherwise no can see the flag down below. ’A’s why when it’s white eh; and if down below is red and you white, the darn thing still goin’; ’A’s why by-n-by get accident.
BB:022 ’A’s why my wife get extra job. But she do good job, you know. Boy, you know—my
daughter eat, eh; she was eating from here. But if the food ever go into her lungs, ’a’s a big operation– operate the lung, eh. So the doctor made a hole over here, so the food no go in the lungs. Until she dies,
she gonna have to feed her through here. ’A’s why she got a job. Hard.... EB:1136 Well, businessman, hard. Because when you start businessman, you gotta get plenty
money; you gotta get good education. See? You no can go businessman if you no more education. No ’nough money.
EB:1144 Yeah, yeah. That’s his ranch. I work in the pasture, and I work milk cow, too, in the
morning. After that, if no more job in the bank, I go pull weeds down the pasture. You see? It’s a hard living, before.
307 ER:768 That time we no more icebox. We just bring ’em and leave ’em inside the bottle, in the salt.
No more icebox. Just leave ’em like that until that thing come dry. If dry, no good, I throw ’em away. ER:796 Dog, they take good care. If you own two dog, they take care, they feed, they put ’em on
the truck and bring home. They no make the dog walk home pau hana. Pau hana, not for man ride. Only for the dog.
FD:252 Only me and my daddy. And then if the boys get through pulling taro, his working men,
they go help. So I didn’t have to do that. But I go get the animals take home. I work hard, you know.
FD:277 So his daddy, I told him to go find out for the property. If I wanted to, if I was greedy, I would have all the property. So I just tell them go look before somebody get in, and they can claim. If
you don’t keep up with the tax, somebody else can have the place. Because that place belongs to me. But I didn’t want to make trouble, so I’m just like their big sister because my grandma married to their
daddy.
GF:306 Well, if that is not your line, you don’t want to stay there. Just for fool around, to kill time.
Those were Depression days. So many years, we had depression, hard time days. Looking around for job, spending the time. You figure, “Well, I’m still young yet. Plenty time.”
GF:316 No. You just plant according to the square of your patch. If your patch is square, well. If it’s not square, you make ’em square. You find the part that it’s going to square your planting. See?
JB:66 Some other things like digging ti root. They usually dig the ti root, now. And they have to dig the ti root above this pali here. Below of Hiilawe Falls. And that’s where we roll the ti leaf down. But
we don’t make the, we cannot make an okolehao with the raw ti root. We have to cook it, we have...Hawaiians had an imu. We have to put it in to put it in the there for about maybe, if we going to
do it tonight, maybe tomorrow afternoon, we going to take it off.
JB:69 Yeah, they do. The only time they had a trouble, when they over drink themself. Then when
they so drunk, that’s when they get the trouble. But if they control themself, as far as the trouble concerned, they don’t get into that trouble.
JL:22 We use rope cattle nighttime at Keamoku side. We wait moonlight. Dey come down steal watah. You see da plenty wild cattle up Keamoku doze day. Dey come down steal watah, well, we go
stay ova dere. No go wheah da wind is. If da wind catch a smell, dey no come down. KH:131 You know, if he kidnap, das mean he wans you fo good, too.
KH:132 Ova deya da devil–if stay down da beach, he go stab you, MM:342 Yeah. If big one, you got to chop ’em.
MM:374 Yeah. And another thing where is hard, too, this Van Dreser, he tell, “Wait till that thing
is really dry, then burn. No burn when you only half.” I tell ’em, “Well, that’s lot of places danger.” They like everything so and so, you know. So, we make a firebreak, but usually, if a big field, let’s say over
here is the hundred-acre field, we start from the back and work our way this way. If the next field is maybe almost ready for harvest or maybe about seven-, eight-month cane and get ‘opala, the fire, if it go
inside there, he going burn, see.
MT:1176 They just go by the bags. They get paid by the bags. But the shop will know, more or less.
They have scales down there. If it’s not enough, they going let you know, don’t forget about it. But if it’s over, they won’t say nothing. That’s how they do it. That’s one thing, the present right now, things look
favorable, but not that good yet.
MT:1178 No, it’s kind of impossible. We get plenty stone. It’s really — if you have all dirt banks,
maybe then you can use lawn mowers or something. But this situation, you cannot. MY:1477 Because down there already, when I was in Japan already, my friend was telling me,
“You cannot talk stink about the tenno heika.” He said, “The tenno heika, you gotta stay down, the law.” So, we talking English. The cab driver no can understand English. So we talking stink, any kind. “Oh, no
worry about that guy.” If the driver know, boy, he take us to the....
MY:1484 Not like the old Waikiki where you can go down the beach and enjoy. Get parking space.
Today, you cannot find no parking space. Even if parking meter have, you cannot go down there, find parking meter because everybody goes down the beach. Even if they allow you to, parking meters, you
cannot find parking meters.
308 NC:167 He called me two times. After that, he still called me. I said, “No, I cannot do such
business. If I sell to you and I take the taro and sell to the other fellow, you don’t like that, too.” And then he said, “Oh, yeah. It’s hard. You cannot find some for me?” I said, “I told you that I don’t do
business for the other fellow. I do my business for my own only.” So he came up, he scout Waipio. He went try to look for dry land taro. I don’t know if he got any or not.
NC:183 You just pack ’em down so much. Don’t pack ’em too far down so in case a flood comes, it knocks ’em off, and don’t make ’em too high. You see, the top, we always have just enough to hold
guava stick or whatever branches we put on, then we put the grass and everything to hold the water. In case the flood comes, it knocks the top off and then if too big a flood, it going to knock everything off, so
as long as a portion goes off, the water is going straight down. If the thing is solid, naturally the sand will all go in our ditch.
NK:955 No, they no like work out because if they going work out, they no can take care their family, plant taro, or do their own work, or go fishing, like that. That’s, more or less, they said, well, if
they have to go work for money, you gotta spend money for buying all other stuff. So that’s why, they go mahi‘ai, themself. Work their taro patch themself and go down the beach catch fish themself.
NK:957 Yeah, have to, have to. My mother them no can stay home one Sunday. Gotta go. Even if
we have to walk how many miles, we gotta go with lantern. Four o’clock, leave the house, walk Honaunau.
OC:11 Yeh, City Photo. They was very, very, very nice. You see, some other company, if you
cannot run your business, well, you just pack and move – get out – and you have to take care, but they were very nice.
OC:9 I know the newspaper and I know the value of that land they get there, the big building – the Advertiser. When come to business, good – better; they sold that – I think their stock went up to
seventeen, eighteen dollars and all my friends sold it to somebody else. They didn’t tell me, see, but I told them before, “If you want to sell, tell me so I can get the money. I know how to go and borrow
money from the bank.”
SU:1531 Yeah. He don’t tell you how much, you know. You pay so much. That’s all. If you can
afford two dollars, you pay two dollars. SU:1552 No, no. We cannot take those kinds, too big. The place cannot hold. No weddings, no
nothing, too big. So maybe, I would say, the biggest party maybe seventy-five. Less than 100, though. Sure, if I have a bigger place, I could take. So, that was the biggest I can hold, and most of the time was
all occupied. TA:49 When I need the patch to be harrowed, or something like that, I hire the Filipino. Most time
I hire the Filipino. I like his buffalo. Slow, they make good job. Most of these farmers used to use horse. So if I cannot hire him, I go rent one horse. I pay so many hours for the horse.
WK:694 Yeah, throw ’em in the fire. Kill the guy’s power. If you worship something and that thing
get power, they just take that thing and throw ’em in the fire and that thing flame. WK:718 He said, “You better....” That’s why I told you, you get to cut the huli certain way, and you
get to pull the huli certain way, that they won’t get soft, so that it won’t die. If you squeeze the huli, you grab the huli and you squeeze it, then they would die. Supposed to be real solid, the huli supposed to be
solid. WK:718 Oh, irrigation? Well, regulation of water is, when you begin to put your huli in the field,
in the patch, when you planting, first two weeks you have to dry the patch up. The reason why you do it is, because you want to get the root attached to the dirt, because if you get too much soft mud, the roots
wouldn’t have the strength to grab the dirt. You know what I mean? To grab the dirt it isn’t too strong. But if you dry within two weeks, the dirt would be solid and the roots would have better chance to get
stronger. Get the root stronger.
YA:1043 Well, the blind date, you know, da kine. They bring ’em each other, and then they get
together and talk, eh? If they no get together and meet and talk, they don’t know who they are, see?
YA:1052 They appointed so-and-so people. So many people go up to operate certain guns, you know. So, you have to go, see. Maybe I’m not the one that operating, but some other people ahead of me
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operate. I got to be around with them. If a bomb hit him, he die, I operate ’em. too. I take over, see? Another guy take over like that, you know.
5.40.4 Summary
