Examples of sambadi SOMEONE .1 Primitive Syntax

64 feel. I do feel, I say, “I wish I can buy a piece of land down there.” I wouldn’t stay here, I would sell this place. I would get me a home down there.

5.7.5 Examples of sambadi

There are substantially more examples of sambadi represented in our corpus than the previous candi- dates. The following examples illustrate the NSM valences found. 5.7.5.1 sambadi THINK MM:370 Yeah. They make it solid, too, because they no want that thing replace all the time, eh? And then, even on the trucking, was the same way. Even when we went trucking, was the same way. They got to pile it on a sling and load ’em up. And then, later on, somebody wen start to think about that push rake. The machine come and push the cane, pile ’em up, eh, in one long line. And then they had the crane. They had the grabber, yo. 5.7.5.2 sambadi WANT AK:663 I know, like us, we pound Thursday. Well, that’s why, before Thursday come, we got to get ready. Maybe, we have some still left before the day we pound. Like my father-in-law, he like have some of the little sour poi to mix with this new one. Now, we pound the new poi. Too fresh to eat. Somebody likes real fresh poi, somebody doesn’t want fresh poi. They like one day old, or little older poi. Or, whatever you have rest, mix ’em with that, the other poi. But you don’t mix the whole thing because only whatever need, you take little portion for mix. The rest you leave. Because the poi you pound today, tomorrow it’s already fermenting eh. When it’s start getting sour, the longer you leave it, going to be what you call, sour poi. ER:857 Every time we like make kalua. Every time we go down there, we can kalua. Maybe somebody no like go fishing, eh, somebody like go shoot goat, so they go shoot goat. And when they come home, they see the fire get going, oh, the goat put inside the imu, too. Put the goat in the imu with the turtle. GF:351 I started to plant because I had some haole boys, they want to sharecrop. Then, there’s some other places here, somebody wants to take over. Toledo, he say he’s going to take over the place. So I waited about six months for him to take over. Then I went see the owner of the place. I asked him, “Say, this place here, I hear Toledo going take over.” “Who told you that?” “Toledo. He told the people that he’s going to come and take over the place.” “No, I cannot give him the place. That place never worth anything before. You improve the whole thing.” Used to be 72 patches. I made ’em into four patches. “I cannot take away from you.” That’s what he told me. NK:957 From Bishop, and then you lease to somebody else. Yeah. Because if I get 20-years’ lease, that’s my place, eh? So, it’s up to me to Bishop. If I not going pay, well, Bishop going huki from me. So, if I no work on the place, somebody else like, I can sell my lease to them. Not sell, but I can lease. Maybe, if I lease 20 years... 5.7.5.3 sambadi SAY AK:655 I never did plant that, certain day. Somebody said you plant Thursday, you get oha going come up plenty. But I never did try that. KE:139 A-an somebody said... “Dad, Dad–Dad, Dad,” an nobody said it now. 65

5.7.6 Examples of gai