Examples of andanit UNDER .1 Primitive Syntax

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5.34.4 Examples of andanit

5.34.4.1 SOMETHING IS andanit There is a single good near-canonical example of predicative andanit: BB:010 Yea, because you know why, [name deleted] is behind our house – policeman yo. OK. He’s the guy he goin’ tell my father that the inspector goin’ come today. He get all the information. So no touch, all hide ’em some place where they don’ know. I goin’ take ’em away from your house. I know ALL the okolehau stay underneath your house. The bootleggers think my house is safe, so they stay bring under our house. Our underhouse was kin’ of high. Some of the kin’, wha-tyou-may call, my father stay dig underneath. The following example is probably not predicative, but attributive i.e., There is a big place under the banyan tree: MY:1461 Oh, was held on ‘Ohua. Between ‘Ohua and Paoakalani, there used to be a big area there with a banyan tree. Oh, it’s a huge banyan tree. Underneath the banyan tree, big place. 5.34.5 Examples of bilo 5.34.5.1 SOMEONE IS bilo There are a few good near-canonical examples of predicative bilo combining with SOMEONE. BB:026 No, [name deleted] is below [name deleted] and then [name deleted]. 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. 5.34.5.2 SOMETHING IS bilo There are a few good near-canonical examples of predicative bilo combining with SOMETHING. ER:775 William’s father, Kwon. He go over there, then the big boss tell him, “You get so many boys go with you. You take ’em mountain, you go plant tree.” So him the luna just like. So he go up there, he show us how you plant over here. Every time they take trees they plant near the fence. The cow stay below the trees, he plant ’em up. Plant up side. Just so... YA:1070 That time, I work in Pearl Harbor, yet. The flood. And the ocean over there, they already build that road over the ocean from Dillingham all the way down to the other side of Kalihi, eh? They had the road already. And when I work in shipyard, I go home four o’clock; three something, pau work, eh? I came home, oh, flooded. Nobody can go. All block up on top there. Damon Tract all full with water. Da kine car all stop, no can go. This side, we never know. I was going. You know, the water was just below the wheel, see? So, I keep on coming. When I come to over there, the second bridge, oh, boy. No can come this side, stuck over there. And then, the water come that deep, you know.

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