114 The HCE form fio is the only plausible candidate. It occurs relatively infrequently in our data. The
tentative conclusion reached in my first study Stanwood 1997 was that, in fact, we did have sufficient evidence to establish its existence in HCE. Further research has confirmed this original finding.
Previously, we had only a single example of primitive fio from Bickerton’s mesolectal O‘ahu speaker Bickerton, Derek and Odo, Carol 1976:344:
BO:344 wen ai stei filing gud, enikain kum aut ‘When I am feeling good, I’ll say anything’
5.15.3 Examples of fio
5.15.3.1 fio GOOD There are several canonical examples of the combination FEEL and GOOD.
ER:853 Yeah, young people, old people. Sometime the old people like go listen, too, eh. All the old people go listen. Sometime they get inside, they wen go drink beer. But most time they drink beer, they
drink outside under the post light. The old kind people, they stay drink. Bumbai they little bit feel good, they come inside make plenty noise.
GF:345 Before the hippies came. The hippies, when they come ask me, they come begging for job. “Please. I need money to buy food. I need things, I cannot buy.” They have pants, big holes in the back.
You can see through. In the front. What you going do? You can turn them down and no give them job? I go home, I go get clothes for them, my own clothes. I tell them, “You try fit this pants on, if fit you.” I
get brand new shorts. “You try put this shorts on, if fit you.” “Oh just right.” “Good.” I feel good. Some of them still working for William Kanekoa.
GF:348 He asked me, “You know where the water is kind of deep, waist deep?” “Oh yeah. I get.” Took me behind there. He baptize me behind there. I surrender to God. Everything. I told Him
everything. They tell me, “Don’t confess to me, I’m not God. You confess to God what you do.” I go behind there, they baptize me in the stream. When I came out, you know, my whole body was tingling.
Just like electric. From head to toe. When I came out, I went home. I tell, “Gee, I feel funny, I feel so good.” So light, you know. Different. Gee, I go swim in there everytime, but I no feel like that. When I
went home, I felt so good.
The following near-canonical sentences assume that the semantic molecule beda can be decomposed as MORE GOOD:
MM:347 Yeah, looks better, no? You feel better, too. MM:358 You know, the day before, you all sweat and sticky and everything, eh? You know, it’s
hard to wear that thing, you know. Yeah, but if you warm ’em up, you feel little bit better. 5.15.3.2 fio BAD
These two examples of FEEL BAD are straight-forward canonical sentences: ER:779 Then bumbai he go check, he hemo the tree, eh. He pull ’em out then he like look, yeah,
we did ’em. Then, every time he check, he tell, “Okay, you, you, you make good job. You can take gun. You, you no make good job.” He tell, “How come I no make good job?” “You no make good job, I go
look your tree. Some get the bottom, some no more. I look, I check. You no more gun.” Ho boy, feel bad because he never get gun, bumbai you gotta work make good job, then you get good record, eh.
MY:1483 You know, any business salesman, when you get your customer, you got to take care.
And me, that’s one guy, I no like the guy feel bad. I got to take care until he’s satisfied. I said, “The only thing I can do, I take the order from my house. My home office, and I do for you. Is that all right?” He
said, “Well, no can help, eh?” I say, “You no have to pay me.”
115 5.15.3.3 fio LIKE THIS
There is a single near-canonical example of the valence FEEL LIKE. Although this example does not contain the primitive THIS, the token daet is likely decomposable into a combination of THIS and
OTHER. GF:348 He asked me, “You know where the water is kind of deep, waist deep?” “Oh yeah. I get.”
Took me behind there. He baptize me behind there. I surrender to God. Everything. I told Him everything. They tell me, “Don’t confess to me, I’m not God. You confess to God what you do.” I go
behind there, they baptize me in the stream. When I came out, you know, my whole body was tingling. Just like electric. From head to toe. When I came out, I went home. I tell, “Gee, I feel funny, I feel so
good.” So light, you know. Different. Gee, I go swim in there everytime, but I no feel like that. When I went home, I felt so good.
5.15.4 Summary
