92 GF:339 Yeah, I sell to other markets too. When I sell to other markets, they want more. I tell,
“Well, that’s all I get.” Then they tell me, “Damn good taro.” But my father-in-law say, “No, your taro no good, no good.”
NC:145 No, no, no. He only handles frogs. He sells out here. He buys from me and then he take ’em out and sell to the restaurants. To any fella who like buy. See, he owe me so much. Then he cannot pay,
eh. Few hundred dollars anyway. I think about 600, 700. About 600, 700 before is more like so many thousand now, eh. So, he tell, “Gee, I cannot pay you everything.” Which I don’t attach him.
So, what he has one lousy, junk Ford pickup. That’s all he get. Not even worth 100. So it’s not worth the attorney’s fee. Why should I? Just write it off.
So, we have established that along with HCE sei, there is a sense of tel which is also a good candidate for the NSM primitive SAY. Since we currently have no evidence of a semantic difference between these
two, our working assumption will be that these two are allolexes for the primitive SAY.
5.13.3 Examples of sei
5.13.3.1 sei Direct Quote There are numerous canonical examples of sei occuring with a direct quote:
AH:120 Den her w say, “I’m going da get some... gi’e dis to my gra-ma.” AH:120 an say, “I got”–anna Lidred Ridin Hood say dat, “Wat sha’p teet you got.”
AH:152 Den da monsta said, “I going eat you.” AK:617 Every farmers help. Like the sections, we all have sections. The other sections have lot of
farmers. And we on this side section we have lot of farmers. Now, when the main stream comes here, sometimes too much water go down this way. Then we all go. Maybe you the first or way up, your patch
need water. They say, “Oh, the waterhead broke, you know. Better go up fix the waterhead. And he say, “okay we come, what day we going work? We all go up, work.” Every farmers just get to clean out.
BB:009 ’A’s why they told ’em like that. The brother get plenty land under his name but no mo’ nothing under your name. But ’a’s all my money, I send him and all he wen buy this and this, so I came
to check today. Big fight I hear. The kinjo, the neighbors all gotta come and help and stop the fight. So my father said, “Eh, bullshit this darn thing. We go to your mother’s side.” So they wen pack up the
suitcase. They had miyage, but they never give nothing. They wen go to my mother’s side. The miyage all went to my mother’s side. That’s what happened, I hear.
EB:1145 No, no, no, no. Nobody watch me. So long my boss, he say, “Go do this,” I go do it. Not
da kine people, they watch your ass every time, no. When my boss wen go Honolulu, I take care everything. Only myself in the house and only myself in the ranch. He told me, “I will go Honolulu with
my wife. So, you take care everything.” See? That’s how it goes. ER:815 Everybody run outside, go make ah, ah,. One guy he push that thing, he think that’s when
the taro come get da kine lump, maybe we no strain ’em good, eh. Bumbai he push away, he see the tail, he say, “Ey, we eating rat” “Where?” “Look the tail” “Eeeeeee.” Everybody run outside, go ah, ah, no
can. Tell, “No sense, you eat already.” Bumbai some other boys tell, “Ey, we no say nothing. Leave ’em go the other guys go eat.” “Nah, no good, throw away. No eat ’em, throw away”
FD:250 Yeah, they cute. But only I had ehu hair. They said, “Funny, pure Hawaiians, they no more
ehu hair.” I said, “Maybe the far back family,” you know. Maybe today pure Hawaiian now all mix, eh? I used to have real ehu hair; me and my sister, two of us, the one in Honolulu. My sister is prettier than
me, the oldest sister. GF:301 No. I had a friend, he had a butcher shop. Then, he buys cattle from Waipio. From Mock
Chew. He bought lot of steers from Mock Chew and then his son told me one day, “Say, my father buying lot of cattle from Mock Chew in Waipio Valley. You been to Waipio Valley?” “No, I haven’t been
there yet.” He said, “My father going Waipio Valley. If you can help me take my father there. I don’t
93 have to go.”. So I just took the place of his son, brought his father down to Waipio. Up the top over here,
Lookout. JL:18 Den I ask him, “Where we going? Are we going Pokanaka Two here?” Thas Parker Ranch
land, eh. He like test da pipi. Ah we went look, look, look. I say, “Dis one ah da best paddock, Mr. Penhallow, for cow with calf. Plenty grass. Plenty grass for da calf and give da cow plenty milk too. Thas
Pokanaka Two.” “I wanna look.”
KE:139 Uhm, da mother said, “You are uggaly.” KH:129 An nuh... Zulu da kine Zulu say, “Gi’e it, give it to me”
KK:116 An afta she said, “You neva going na sew you big fat coolie again before I heet em, you
betta look at em now, tha’s you na go see em befo-a.”
KL:126 Da town say, “Don’ you mine for fish un pen.” KN:136 An den, den afta, he say, “Oh yes, yes, please, I wo–, I wo– be ya fren. I–... Cuz I am a hip-
pie. Kuh I am a hip-pie lady.”
KO:119 Den Hale said, “Pono, c-come on, we’re going to fight.” LE:150 An den Kalau said dat–Den Moke said, “Honey. Come an kiss me.”
ML:138 An Makani say, uhm, “I know wat, I know wat. Da crooks stay me, da crooks stay me. I
know wat.” MM:362 Yeah. “Sixty-five, then.” So, I tell him, “I won’t give you answer now. Let me think it
over.” He said, “Okay.” So one day, a few days later, I was inside the furo, you know. And then, hey, who this guy? I don’t know if you know this guy. Orme. We used to call him “Bunghole, Bunghole.” He
come inside there inside the furoba, you know. I tell, “What you want?”
MT:1182 He tell me, “You crazy.” I say, “That’s all right.” Sure, I was crazy. The thing got rotten
because the water was too warm. But I made enough money. When I harvest that crop, was one year. He had to go another four months more if he going harvest his. So I gained. I didn’t lose.
MY:1467 The man, he let him charge any amount because he know my father and my brother. So,
he says, “Oh, yeah, Yoshimura. Good. No scared. Charge, up to you.” And the manapua man, too. My kid brother go take plenty manapua, he go give everybody. And he think the manapua man don’t know.
NC:134 Because Chinese real good carpenter you know. For build up house like that. In no time they put ’em up. You’d be surprised, when they build house, the scaffold. You see how they put the
scaffold up? But I wouldn’t dare go on top though. But they go. I said, “Ho, when we build house and we make scaffold, we make sure he solid.” But theirs, only bamboo only. Just tie them up and they put
up the house.
NC:144 “Takeo, how many you catch?” He say, “Oh, little more, one dozen.” I say, “What? You come over here first and we go after.” He say, “How many you catch?” I say, “Fourteen dozens.” He
said, “What?” I say, “Oh, 14 dozen.” And he was catching over there I went behind after that. I caught more than him.
NK:932 Yeah. They say, “Oh, our days, the best. Good fun. We get something to remember.” We
good friends, we fight, we fight, and then now, we all good friends. NK:942 Eighty-four. Well, anyway, she said, if she not going to do nothing as she used to be like
before, she no can live longer.
OC:6 So Mr. Hubert say, “Well, you know the friend and you know how much that thing there,
you think what it’s worth to you.” SU:1534 And then, he used to pick up lot of balls, loose kind balls, eh? When they hit the ball, they
lose the ball. He used to pick up. He used to bring home all of the.... Boy, I used to get plenty balls from him. And then, I say, “Well, I better try golf.” Got to go out and buy the golf set.
TA:45 You know, you pulling taro, I say, “Hey, I like huli. I help you pull.” See, what I pull, that’s
my huli. I make. But I helping you pull taro. I no get paid or nothing. So I take your huli. That’s how I got all my huli. And then even today, lot of people do that. See, they want huli. You pulling taro, he go
help you pull. Then, since I helping you pull, you go help me make huli too.
WK:711 Well, they get sick, and sicker, and sicker, and sicker, and then the guys go hooponopono,
they go try to heal them. They say, “Eh, you get terrible sick, you get terrible sick.” They tell ’em. Yeah.
94 WK:713 No, they like. That’s why they like wahines, they tell, “Eh, that wahine like you, and you
no like ’em.” “Gee I scared the bugga.” They tell, “The wahine like you, you know.” I say, “Nah I scared wahine.” I tell ’em.
YA:1030 They selling mullet, about six like that, long, for twenty-five cents. Nobody buy, you
know. So, we go look again. And you walk from one table to another table. They say, “Oh, buy fish, buy fish, buy fish.” And, “Nah, no like. About how much?” “Oh, twenty-five cents.” Bumbai, I look at ’em,
get six fish. Bumbai, “Oh, I give you two more for twenty-five cents.” Nobody buy, see? Bumbai we buy some for home make salt cabbage eh? I don’t know those days, simply anything for nothing you can get,
you know.
5.13.3.2 sei Indirect Quote There are also numerous canonical examples of sei occuring with indirect quotes as complements:
BO:336 so a sei wen yu go get am fo mi. ‘So I said “when are you going to get it for me ?”.’
BO:338 dis gai hia sed daet hi gon get mai vainil, ‘This guy here said that he was going to get my vinyl,’
AH:152 He say he get two speyas and poke your eyebahs outta ya eayas. AK:672 I know something else. I never did see, but they said they have that, those thing over
there. I think till today, though. But it’s good to have somebody who knows the place, eh, you go. But I never did go there.
BB:004 You go make this kin’, eh – big kin’. They say they like 20 gallon kin’, my father make the
20 gallon. Ten gallon kin’, they like, mostly was 10 gallon kin’. ER:869 Get some guys every time stay in the office. They like know what happened down there,
what get or light. They said two time one week in the night, we gotta come up, what we see gotta come make report, yeah.
FD:290 That’s why, I always tell Roy. He said, “Oh, mine too.” I like to see what he says because
he’s the pastor of the church, he supposed to know more. But funny, I have that kind feeling. Sometime, if you neglect God, that’s what. I don’t go to church, that’s why I tell you two girls, but I have just a
church in my own heart. GF:330 They never reached China. Because they live in the interior—way up in Chungking, or way
up. When they reach Hong Kong, they say they got to go by train and by boat to reach home. Like me, I’m fortunate, my place right in Kowloon. But I never been there, too. I heard so much stories about
these people that own lands, or has money coming back to China from Hawaii, or United States. They never reached home. So, we actually gave the land away to the family in China. We never wanted to go
back.
JB:62 I’m the one have to keep all my brothers and sisters. And I stayed with my father. The life that I had gone through was a pitiful life, a life that nobody knows. I’m the only son that’s still living
now, the older son. From the rest of my brothers I’m the only oldest one. I still living. As I said at the early beginning, if I wouldn’t go away in the Waipio Valley, I would be 56 years old down in Waipio
Valley now.
JL:18 Bymby we came home, my daughtah Irene she already cook. We told Penhallow, “How
about having lunch with us?” And he said, “No, He gotta go home.” And he tell me, “You know why I came up here for?” “No, I dunno.” “I want you come back. After I pau pension, I want you come back.” I
tole him, “Let me tink it owa first. All right, I let you know one week time.” MM:372 Thousands and thousands of cane, eh? And every one get damage, you going to lose that
much juice. That’s quite a bit, you know. That’s why in the mill, well, I don’t know much about mill. But in the mill, they say, the recovery is–you know, in the end where they make the sugar like that–if they
get 90 so many percent, 96 percent or 97 percent, they like to see that thing go more, 98 percent. If they go 98 percent, that means you only losing 2 percent, you know.
95 MT:1166 Well, it’s hard to say. At present, it’s very hard to say. Everything is all closed up,
enclosed already. Manpower is out of the question. Manpower maybe only can cut the trees on the sides. But what about that material in the stream. Which is, you know, the gravel is piled up to meet the banks,
the original taro patch banks. You know, it’s gradually coming up. Some people say the State supposed to own the rivers. I really do not know if they really interested about it.
MY:1476 They all like come my house nighttime. When I was there, they all like come my house. Because I bring all the goodies for my grandfather. Oh, my grandfather, give him all kind. Bring cracker,
coffee, chocolate, anything, for him. So, every night, all these people like–he said, they like come see me. Not me, they like come eat. ’Cause he got to make coffee and all, eh?
NC:155 Yeah, they take ’em home. Eat ’em. You know, sometimes I think it’s superstitious. After you take ’em home, then they offer like that. They say that thing already eat and everything. How can
you tell if they eat or not? That’s one thing I cannot see. They say they eat. How can you tell me they eat?
OC:7 They say they never so that before, so I told them “Well, I sell and I bring all the money that
I make and then they give me what I’m supposed to have.”
WK:694 Well, maybe you don’t believe it, but she say, if anybody would hurt us and we just give
’em the aumakua. You know aumakua is our god, eh? And if we on the right part of that, you know. And it’s going to hurt them plenty. You know, the next party. So the thing going fall on them. That’s what I
mean our alii. What they call that?
YA:1028 I don’t know. He said he too old. He no like work already. He figure, ’nough already.
Now all the big boy, they working. You know, go out and find job, and working for somebody else. So, he no like go work. That time, he was old already, you know. Maybe eighty or seventy-five, somewhere
around like that. Kinda old, eh? He working hard, you know. Day and night, he work. And he brought up all da kine children, so many. He must be satisfied more than enough.
5.13.3.3 sei SOMETHING If we regard the lexeme nating and eniting as an allolexes of SOMETHING in the following contexts, then
the following are canonical examples of sei combining with SOMETHING: ER:754 No. I no think so because nobody bother me that time. Maybe they tell my father, but my
father he no bother me. He no say nothing, eh. Only he tell me, “You gotta go school tomorrow.” That’s only what they tell me, but that time, I never like go school. I like ride horse. Every time I like follow.
ER:775 I no say nothing. ER:788 Yeah. He teach young boys, too. He teach, and he good. He no mad, this man. No matter
what you do to him, he no mad. Hard old man for get mad. You get mad with him, you can grumble grumble, no, he no say nothing. Bumbai he tell you, “Why you come mad like that. No good. You gotta
be good to all the people. No come mad.” Like me, I wen go school, eh. I no learn in school. But I learn all from work. What I work, I learn from the old people, I try pick up from them.
FD:275 That’s the kind, you know, that. So, with my mom and my dad, they do believe because my daddy is a Catholic and my mom is something like Protestant. Just like Roy, and the LDS. All that kind.
They do believe that God above is our healer. Because God is every where, if you do believe there’s such thing as God above to help. And then man made, you know, this knowledge to these people that they
can heal too. But my mom never say nothing.
MT:1176 They just go by the bags. They get paid by the bags. But the shop will know, more or less. They have scales down there. If it’s not enough, they going let you know, don’t forget about it. But if it’s
over, they won’t say nothing. That’s how they do it. That’s one thing, the present right now, things look favorable, but not that good yet.
SU:1525 Well, how much can we do? But just kill the time, we go down there. And then when it come to lunch hour, there’s no such thing, half an hour. We go place where they get some guava, we go
down there pick up guava. Place where they get, what they call, you know the mountain poha, eh?
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Maybe one hour. The boss doesn’t say anything to us because he knows it, eh? But he told us, he said, “Make sure the big boss no catch you.” That’s what I did.
5.13.3.4 sei THIS There is a single canonical example of sei occuring with HCE dis.
MT:1169 Well, I hate to say this, but people actually, in Kukuihaele, doesn’t like me, and I was the
president. To be honest about it. That’s the only reason why. The following may be considered near-canonical examples of the same valence:
GF:321 Quick I stop. I say, “No, no good. I might call the wrong name and get the guy in hot water.” You see, I didn’t want to continue. So these people, they wanted to lend me money. “If Jim
doesn’t want to lend you the money, I lend you the money.” “What does he do?” “Well, he’s the president for Bank of Hawaii.” He tell me that. “Oh, I didn’t know that. You folks never introduce
yourselves to me. You know my name, but I don’t know your names. I don’t know what you do. Your position.”
KE:139 Uh, nobody not going to say it to Kali, an nobody not going say to a liddle gir’. KK:117
Afta da kine say, “Oh deya you honey bun, of deya you say dat to me.” KK:117 An Kekoa say, “Oh ya? I can say dat to you again.”
YA:1022 I don’t think about they no believe me, but when they heard, they say that to me. One
man tell me–one fella that I told him, I don’t know, when I was kinda old man already. Forty, fifty years old already. He tell me, “You sure you saw a menehune?” “Yeah.” I say yeah, you know. Then, they say
it’s all menehune, they never see. In the above all cases daet and it refer to propositions. It is possible that they could be allolexes of
THIS. Likewise, it is very possible that they are decomposable into some configuration containing THIS. 5.13.3.5 sei X TO ME
There are three canonical examples of sei with a ME addressee: BB:013 No. Already my father said, “As soon as you graduate,” wha-tyou-call, “we goin’ Japan.
You goin’ make lots of houses over there.” That year my father and mother went to Japan and they wen see the place already. They came back from the kin’. And then they wen send me one letter. I remember
those days was bon odori time. My brother went over there — get — “Eh, this is from dad, you know, for you.” “OK I read.” He said me, “Catch the first plane,” not plane but boat, eh, “and come down Pier 13.
I go be waiting for you.” So, I wen catch the first boat and went down there.
KK:117 Afta da kine say, “Oh deya you honey bun, of deya you say dat to me.” YA:1022 I don’t think about they no believe me, but when they heard, they say that to me. One
man tell me–one fella that I told him, I don’t know, when I was kinda old man already. Forty, fifty years old already. He tell me, “You sure you saw a menehune?” “Yeah.” I say yeah, you know. Then, they say
it’s all menehune, they never see. But no, they see Indian only, you know. The following may be considered near-canonical examples of sei and ME assuming that as is
explicable in terms of ME. MM:328 Well, in a way, I’m glad that my father moved. I don’t know what made him move
because he never say us why he moved or anything. But he moved here. Why I say I’m glad he moved because, you know, Koloa is a bigger place than where we was. Where we was is one small, little camp.
Of course, Koloa is not so big town, too, but then compared with where we was, yeah. SU:1525 Yeah. You know, the cane field, eh? Well, how much can we do? But just kill the time, we go down there. And
then when it come to lunch hour, there’s no such thing, half an hour. We go place where they get some guava, we go down there pick up guava. Place where they get, what they call, you know the mountain
poha, eh? Maybe one hour. The boss doesn’t say anything to us because he knows it, eh? But he told us, he said, “Make sure the big boss no catch you.” That’s what I did.
97 5.13.3.6 sei X TO YOU
There is a single canonical example of sei with a YOU addressee:
KK:117 An Kekoa say, “Oh ya? I can say dat to you again.”
5.13.3.7 sei X TO SOMEONE The following are near-canonical examples of sei with a SOMEONE addressee, assuming that maen and
proper names are decomposable in terms of SOMEONE:
KA:127 Kapua wen go say to da booga man–an den Kapua said, “I gonna take a’ your clothes,” ae? KE:139 Uh, nobody not going to say it to Kali, an nobody not going say to a liddle gir’.
KK:123 She said to Kehi, “He, couldin be, could.” KK:123 Ummm. She said to Kehi, “Kehi, you
my muther.”
KL:125 He said to Pono, “Pono, wo you put on da racka again?”
5.13.3.8 sei X ABOUT SOMEONE There is a single near-canonical example of sei combining with a topic complement:
JB:69 Yeah, the Filipinos, they goes with the Chinese and with the Hawaiian people too. They mingle together. And they don’t have any trouble with it. Because, some of the Filipinos were working
with the Chinese people, Mr. Ah Wo, Mr. Thomas and Mr. Ginji Araki. And.... did I say about Chun?
I assume here that CHUN may be explicated as: 110 Chun: the person I think of when I say ‘chun’
5.13.4 Examples of tel
