258 to go. That’s how I drive.” I don’t drive slowly rainy days. Rainy days, you go up one hill, you go slowly,
you going stay there. 5.33.3.2 SOMEONE IS IN A pleis
There is a single near-canonical example involving an HCE semantic molecule derivable from SOMEONE and predicative pleis:
MM:366 No. So far, lucky. Nobody got killed. Louis was lucky, too, I hear. Even on the government road like that, too, certain place where get hill like that, they get the cut like this, eh? Now, if this the
road, now you imagine the garage there is the hill. So they got to cut ’em down like that. And then the thing bin happen right between the cut like that, you know. The train wen start run away with the cars,
yo. And he stay inside the narrow place, between the car and the cut. So, if he been get dizzy or what and wen fall between the car, yo, he....
5.33.3.3 SOMETHING IS IN A pleis There is a single near-canonical example involving an HCE term derivable from SOMETHING and
predicative pleis: ER:887 Up there, all 54-00, this 54-00. And from that road below, go airport way, that’s all 55-00.
Then bumbai, I study little bit then I catch on, eh. Sometime, they tell me, “You go 53-17.” I stay look, I tell, “What place the machine stay? Fifty-three this side, or below or way down the top?” They tell me,
“The straight road going up.” You know from the station, going up one straight road, you go straight up there, then you going see the machine. The machine all inside, you go look what number you supposed
to go. Then that’s how I go learn. So you ask ’em, “What road I going take, more easy for me?”
FD:281 They didn’t want us to move here, because they were wondering how come we get the place. Lot of them like the house, but they had some single men were staying in here. He said, well, “The
single men we can put them to smaller place.” Like the kitchen all in one place. They used to have the camps over there, and they don’t need the big house like this. But you know what they were doing to us?
We come in here paint the house; you know the mud, they used to paint ’em all over the walls.
ER:824 They talk story sometime in the evening, or early in the morning, plenty mynah birds make
plenty noise. Certain place, plenty mynah bird. So when you think da kine, you think ghost, eh, obake. The way they.... Tell how come the bird all make noise like that. They tell maybe get da kine, eh.
So you come scared. When single boy you stay here, all nighttime, they talk story, eh, the old people talking story, you go listen. Sometime you think too spooky, ah, more better go home for sleep. You no
like listen, bumbai you come scared, eh.
5.33.4 Examples of wea
5.33.4.1 SOMEONE IS wea There are several near-canonical examples of SOMEONE in combination with predicative wea:
AK:638 That used to be the Ah Puck family. They used to live there. They were the big family there. But the water took away the house. When we had the flood, way back. And where Steve Mochida
is, that’s the Loo’s house. Very big family. Then, guy–Lia, Sam Lia family. And then, way up by the rice mill, there was the Chang family up there. And above us is another Hawaiian family, below us is
another. Right behind, in the stream there, right behind us, is my wife’s uncle. We all were close. You can yell to each other. Those days, the people know everyone. And the store was right in front of us. Lui
Hing Store, where Peter is, and right in the front there. That’s where the store is.
AK:640 No. Waipio, we used to have the church up in the school. And the Mormon has the Mormon church. 1938, 1939, 1940, they were using the Mormon church yet. But the Protestant, they
259 were using the school. No more church, eh. That church building was there, right next to Peter. You
know where Peter is? That’s where the old Protestant church was.
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 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. And where that little shack in front of Roy, my daddy used to raise all that. All over there
used to be my dad’s place. And then his family from the Kala family where the family came from Hakalau.
FD:295 That’s why I was telling one of the teachers, because I know the girls. Before she go to school, I always tell them, “Check her every day.” This is almost lunch hour, they call me back. “She’s in
school today and they question her where she was Friday. Because we call home, Grandma say you came to school, but you wasn’t present that day.”
We need to assume that hr and proper names are decomposable in terms of SOMEONE. 5.33.4.2 SOMETHING IS wea
There are several near-canonical examples of SOMETHING in combination with predicative wea: AK:638 That used to be the Ah Puck family. They used to live there. They were the big family
there. But the water took away the house. When we had the flood, way back. And where Steve Mochida is,
that’s the Loo’s house. Very big family. Then, guy–Lia, Sam Lia family. And then, way up by the rice mill, there was the Chang family up there. And above us is another Hawaiian family, below us is another.
Right behind, in the stream there, right behind us, is my wife’s uncle. We all were close. You can yell to each other. Those days, the people know everyone. And the store was right in front of us. Lui Hing Store,
where Peter is, and right in the front there. That’s where the store is.
AK:640 No. Waipio, we used to have the church up in the school. And the Mormon has the Mormon church. 1938, 1939, 1940, they were using the Mormon church yet. But the Protestant, they
were using the school. No more church, eh. That church building was there, right next to Peter. You know where Peter is? That’s where the old Protestant church was.
AK:672 No. Waimanu and Waipio meet right above, you know where Kawainui is? Right above
there is, that’s where they call the kapuai ekahi. You know, right above Kawainui, the place in Kawainui? Right above there, and Waimanu is right on the next side. Like that, they said one step, and
you can go through Waimanu. But it’s not one step, kind of far. But that’s the end where Waimanu come in, and then, Waipio come in. They wanted to take the water through all that Waimanu water come
through there, and come through here. I don’t know why they never did put the tunnel. You know where from Kawainui is? Just put tunnel, I don’t know. Might be, I don’t know how many feet get inside. Not
too long, oh, go inside. The way I think is good to get that water in, and make a walkway for pass. Anybody like to go up there, and let ’em just walk in and walk out. But they never did do that. But then,
they get all the water, the Waimanu water. All wasted for nothing. Going down the beach. Lot of water there. I think, they bring all the water, make a dam someplace, they get enough water to supply all. I
think you can send the water all the way Kona, I think. Lot of water. You see, Waimanu is deep, big, eh. But they end up to one small little spot. But where that pond is, I never did go there, but my wife’s
grandfather told me. Lot of them say one nice place to go, go visit. We planned to go, but never. I don’t know how come we never make the trip. I guess I’m too old now, to go up there.
BB:003 No, no mo’. We never live over there. We live in Camp Five. You know where is Camp Five? They get one furoba over there, jabon tree, eh; right over there. The house before, wha-tyou-call,
[name deleted] was living in that house. And then they moved to the other house, ’a’s how we took the house.
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ER:813 No, you go up this side. You going come down on top Maunalei Gulch. You know where the pump stay? Other side. You not going be the beach area. You only going stay on top. So if you
going go through the mountain, you know where Hauola Gulch... ER:814 Yeah, the haole koa. You know all over here, all clear. All right around. No more the koa.
But now, you no can go with the horse too much. Before, our days, with the horse, we can go all around. I go all around this area, right around Lana‘i with the horse. No trail, because you know where all the
cow trail come up. You know where all the water trough for the cow. Everyplace get water trough. So where the water trough stay, plenty trail for the cows to go up and down, because they go for the
water, eh.
ER:840 Yeah, way up there, where the school was, that’s where they wen go school. And then
when the two guys wen pau school, I think they no like the working hour, eh, they run away; they went Honolulu. They never go school Lahaina. And then Uncle Chester, too, I think one time he wen pau
school, he went Honolulu. He wen work for Rapid Transit, streetcar kind.
ER:852 Yeah, everybody go one place. Had one big toilet over here. Where my garage was, and where the wall stay like this, this side was the shower, where I wen put wall, over there was the
shower room. And this side, everybody go wash clothes. They get plenty tub, eh, for go wash clothes. 5.33.4.3 DO-Clause IN A pleis
We do have some very good near-canonical examples of DO with a locative adjunct which is presumably decomposable through the primitive PLACE:
AK:615 No. You want to come in, you come in; you don’t want to come in, all right. We just simply
organized this thing. You see, we organized the club for something that we need to do in Waipio. Might be, we need to divert the water someplace, or something like that. And then we can hold a
meeting, then we can get somebody to, say, go to the Board of Water Supply and give our opinion. We need something to be done in Waipio, we go up there. And we did too. When we had the flood, we did
too. We diverted the water, that Hiilawe Stream water.
GF:303 Then later on, I come around with these boys. We go sell fish up at the store, my sister’s store, eh? “Where you got the fish from?” By mistake, he say, “Your brother caught this fish last night.”
You see, that’s how he say. “Eh, where is he now?” “Oh, he’s in the car.” Come for me. “What you doing in the car? You caught the fish and you sell to the store. What’s the matter with you, why don’t
you bring home?” She tell me that. I say “I don’t own the fish. I went with them on the boat. I don’t own the fish. And I never had any intention of catching fish. I never know I can catch fish.” So that’s how.
BB:031 Something like that. Too long ’a’s why they bin cut.... You know the first [name deleted]?
They call ’im the [name deleted]. He did something wrong in Japan, so they wen put ’im in a boat and the kin’ American ship wen get ’im and they brought ’im over here. They changed the name to [name
deleted]. ’At’s what I heard.
EB:1133 Well, so far, they okay. We can survive whatever he’s doing on the farm. MT:1192 Well, no. Actually, I have things to do too sometimes. Well, actually, I gain on the
hauling. The trucker over here charge the shop 73 cents a bag. So when I haul 25 bags to Hilo, I getting 73 cents plus, plus this now. So it comes out to this price. So it kind of pays the gas and whatever I
have to do in Hilo. But I have a little bit more drinking money. SU:1522 Yeah. So you get dollar and ten cents. But if you work twenty-four days, you don’t get the
ten cents. Well, those days was big money. So I decide. I tell Mr. Murakawa, “I better quit and go Honolulu.” He told me, “If you go out in Honolulu, you going be furyo shonen. You going be bum.” I tell,
“Well, maybe, maybe not, I don’t know but.” “What you going do, Honolulu?” I say, “I’m going to be carpenter.” “Who you know in Honolulu?” “I don’t know nobody, but Mr. Shimizu”–this is another
Shimizu, see
WK:700 Oh yeah, yeah. We got to go home and do our job at home.
261 5.33.4.4 HAPPEN-Clause IN A pleis
There are a few good near-canonical examples demonstrating HAPPEN with a locative adjunct: ER:869 You go by the police station. They stay inside there, you go inside there. Get some guys
every time stay in the office. They like know what happened down there, what get or light. They said two time one week in the night, we gotta come up, what we see gotta come make report, yeah.
MM:366 No. So far, lucky. Nobody got killed. Louis was lucky, too, I hear. Even on the government road like that, too, certain place where get hill like that, they get the cut like this, eh? Now, if this the
road, now you imagine the garage there is the hill. So they got to cut ’em down like that. And then the thing bin happen right between the cut like that, you know. The train wen start run away with the
cars, yo. And he stay inside the narrow place, between the car and the cut. So, if he been get dizzy or what and wen fall between the car, yo, he....
MT:1189 So I told her, “Let’s see the books on Honokaa Sugar paying the State, X number of gallons for X number of dollars.” She said, “I’m sorry, we don’t have nothing on record.” So now, coming
back to that flooding situation, that’s why I say, the intakes that they have at the top of the valley, where they taking the intake through their pumps, when that thing gets plugged, the amount the excess water,
that’s what’s happening to us in Waipio Valley. The overflow comes over.
SU:1562 That place used to be big place, you know. You can hold quite a bit. Used to be lot of
parties down there before, Lau Yee Chai. And what happened on the corner, they used to have a market down there? Piggly Wiggly?
5.33.5 Summary
