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FD:287 Well, before we didn’t have, we didn’t have these kind of things happening to us now. We
didn’t have. Even like sickness. Never have so much sickness like before. GF:336 Go one different place. And then the whole stream bed dry up. We just pick what we want
to. Then, after we get enough, put the water back. Plenty fish. All kinds of fish. MM:366 Twelve feet. They get two kind. Twelve and fifteen. Yeah, twelve and fifteen, they have.
MM:371 They got to make adjustment. So, they have two kinds, see. All the plantations, they had
what they call the “irrigation field” and the “dry-land field.” What they mean by “dry land,” they no more irrigation, see. They only waiting for the rain come down. So the lines are almost flat, yo. Only
when they go irrigation field, the lines stay like this, eh? So, that’s why, they got to adjust, see. From one field, from unirrigated field you go to the irrigation field, you got to adjust your point, yo. The point, you
got to put one up, the other one down, the other one up, so that the low one stay inside the line. And on the long point, the one go inside the line, get one big blade, we call it, knife, yo. And that thing, he slide
on top the cane and then he cut only the cane, eh?
MY:1463 They had, but people don’t know. Because like us, we know because we go there, look.
The other kind people, the gaijin like that, they don’t go look. They don’t know what’s going in the camp. Like us, anything is something different, we go there and look. Fighting chicken.
NC:153 Chinese dinner. Like get chicken, duck, chop suey. Some kind of fish, some kind of
vegetables. All kinds. You get about seven, eight kine stuff on the table. 5.37.3 Examples of kain
5.37.4 X IS kain OF Y
Despite the frequency of kain in our database, there is only one clear example of predicative kain: SU:1545 Well, same like beef cutlet. Cut ’em thin, and then you put the bread crumbs, and then fry
’em. And then, pot roast beef, stew, curry, corned beef, corned beef hash, all those things in the menu. Scallops, fried oysters, you know, all those. Steaks. Those days, we don’t know nothing about this T-bone
steak, or porterhouse steak, or what. But as you go, you learn. Ah, porterhouse steak is this kind of steak, T-bone steak is this kind of steak, New York cut is this kind of steak, sirloin steak is this kind of
steak, rib steak is this kind of steak. You know, as you go buy, you learn, see? But those days, everything was cheap. T-bone steak only dollar and a quarter. Really, take big man to eat big T-bone
steak, you know. Porterhouse steak is worse, bigger. Of course, get little bit more bone, but. Most of the time we used to sell sirloin steak and rib steak. Rib steak, it really tastes good because of the little bit fat
in, eh? But we don’t know nothing about New York cut, filet mignon. We don’t know those things.
5.37.5 X IS THE SAME kain AS Y
There is a clear example of kain occuring with SAME used as a relator in a single clause: ER:880 Yeah, because he was the top boss, eh. So he come see me if I like go drive truck because
get room now for go inside. Because the cowboy pay was same kind pay with the truck drivers.
There are two other examples of kain occuring with SAME. However, the two arguments to SAME are inferred from the content of the discourse rather marked overtly within the same clause:
SU:1552 Okay. And then, toward to Downtown side, used to have Sarashina Inn. Serve same kind
of food, but they are all different booths. So you can bring the wahine, go down there, eh? You know. And then, further down, you go to, of course, KC Drive Inn and everything, but further to Waikiki side,
you have the Bluebird Cafe. You know that?
YA:1052 Oh, same kind. Mostly, you know, repair da kine for the ship. You know, when they
assign you one job, you make bearing for certain kind of job. You know, bearings, they pour by the lead already, see? All you have to do is put on machine and cut the bearing into two half. Then, you make
’em to fit, eh? That’s all, see.
279 5.37.5.1 THERE ARE X kain OF Y
There are three examples of kain co-occuring with the primitive THERE ARE:
YA:1062 Da kine bird. Get kinda little long-legged kind. And then, they fly by flock on the side
of the beach, eh? Nomoa is a portmanteau form containing both THERE ARE and NO:
EB:1134 Oh, New Year’s, too. We make candy–the Philippine candy, like that. But no more this kind wrapping on, you know.
YA:1058 Oh, we only catch squid. No more other kind. Because plenty people over there, you
know. Sand Island. Now, no can tell. I no can tell how Sand Island look like now. All fill up already. No more one island over there, see?
5.37.6 Summary
