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
5.33.3.1 YOU ARE IN A pleis There is a single near-canonical example involving the primitive YOU and predicative pleis:
GF:352 “...And keep the truck good. Use it as it is yours, not somebody else’s.” Then he use the truck. Then, keep on going like that, keep on going. Then, one day, he borrowed my truck. Rain like
anything, he borrowed my truck. I don’t know what happened to his truck. He borrowed my truck. I say, “This truck here, when you come up the road on the hill, I notice you go very slowly up the hill, when
the road is slippery. Don’t go slowly. If you go slowly, you going to stay one place. Just drop plenty power. You come up on third, you go home. Go up on third.” “Ho, that’s too fast.” “That’s how you got
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
