256 GF:308 But I was going quit from him, see? I wanted to quit from him. I don’t want to work in
Waipio, see? “You don’t want to let me go?” He said, “No, you stay. You make good. You good boy.” This and that. I say, “No, I cannot live by praises. I got to look for myself.” You know the Chinese say,
“Beware when people praise you, you going fall down. If somebody scold you, stick your head in the water, you can come up. But if somebody praise you every time, you beware of them.” That’s what my
mother used to teach us long time ago. And sometimes, I used to think, I used to go around in my life, I see other people, they have fathers and mothers scold the children, teach them.
NC:135 Oh, that thing is busted long, long ago. I forget how long ago, already. You know that
house, Lau Kong house? Behind, he get one small shack. I don’t know if still there. Where Sonny Ah Puck used to stay. I don’t think he stay. The lumber is from there, you know. From the rice mill. You’d be
surprised. I am not sure, however, about the status of langtaim. In the most recent version of the metalanguage,
A LONG TIME is a primitive. I have suggested in the previous chapter, it should be treated as a com- bination of BIG and TIME. If I am correct, the above are canonical examples; if I am wrong, they are not.
5.32.4 Summary
We have found the following valences in our corpus data: BEFORE X TIME
BEFORE THIS
There are no missing valences.
5.33 WHERE 5.33.1 Primitive Syntax
A PLACE adjunct is optional with DO and HAPPEN: [DO-CLAUSEHAPPEN-CLAUSE ] IN d1 PLACE
PLACE may also combine predicatively in the following manner: [IYOUPEOPLEd1 PERSONd1 THINGTHIS] IS IN d1 PLACE
5.33.2 HCE Candidates
We need to consider four possible candidates for the NSM primitive WHEREPLACE: wea, pleis, sampleis, samwea. The last two candidates are relatively infrequent in our corpus.
Most of our examples of samwea are clearly non-spatial: AK:606 Yeah, I forget what year was that. I think 1941, or somewhere around that had big floods
that washed the Ah Puck house, washed the....
AK:610 About somewheres in the 1940’s. MM:329 I only remember one Filipino. Why I remember this Filipino is, this Filipino man was a
young guy, although he was maybe about in his early ’30s or so, or maybe late ’20s, somewhere around there. He used to get gun, see. He go hunt in the afternoon, weekends, like that. He go hunt for the
257 mynah bird. And then, those days, it’s not strict. And not only that, it’s really lonely place over there. No
more police or anything. So he can go shoot anything any day, anytime he like because nobody know.
SU:558 Before nineteen thirty.... After the liquor, so maybe ’35, ’36, somewhere around there,
anyway.
WK:703 1925. Yeah, somewheres around there. In the 1920’s anyhow. YA:1026 I don’t know. Maybe ten, fifteen years. Ten, somewhere around like that. So, after that,
we come Honolulu. The remainder of examples are compatible with the semantics of the primitive WHERE:
BB:019 Somewhere around there. SU:535 Then, let’s see. Takara. Well, he came from Hakalau. He worked at Honolulu Dairyman’s.
Then Mr. Oshiro, I don’t know what kind of job he was doing. Then, Mr. Uyehara. He came from Pepe‘ekeo Andrade Camp. He worked at the Moana Hotel. I don’t know what kind of job he’s doing, but
anyway he got a job at the Moana Hotel. Then, Suzuka. He was a mechanic, Universal Motors. Then Aoki, taxi driver. Then Sakuda worked yardboy somewhere down Nu‘uanu. And Matsuda, he was a
driver for Carter. Ex-Governor Carter, yeah? And then, they used to have one store down there. I forgot his name.
It remains to be seen whether it is indeed semantically primitive. It would like to suggest that samwea in our examples could also mean something like:
122 a place, I don’t know what place
There are not sufficient examples, however to determine this. Sampleis is also a possible exponent of PLACE, however there are insufficient examples to determine
this: AK:652 Yeah, I always had enough water. And every now and then, you have to go look at your
water head. When we have rain, the river flowing over the river, you got to watch your water head. Maybe no ’nough water, broke someplace. The water run away, and your water coming down, no
’nough. So you got to go fix your water head. No depend on the next man to go fix. Because maybe he going wait for you, while you waiting for him. So you might as well go do it.
GF:337 In Waipio. There’s Chinese ladies from the.... yeah, I don’t know where they from. Maybe
Hilo or someplace else. You see, when I stayed down the valley, I get no time to go here and there so much. Only some boys, they rascal, they come get me.
JB:69 We kick him out of Waipio Valley. And he had to move out of there. And he have to go
someplace. I think he went to Maui. But he’s back down in Hilo. He’s about 80 years now, I think.
Although both samwea or sampleis are still possible allolexes in HCE for the NSM primitive PLACE, there is no evidence that either of them manifest the any of the primitive syntactic frames.
We do, however, have evidence for the HCE tokens pleis and wea.
5.33.3 Examples of pleis
