Example 71-160
- Comment:
- Of the Hawaiian directionals (which syntactically follow the verb), only mai 'hither' is used productively in the pidgin; iho 'down' is used only twice (usually the preposition malalo, which means 'bottom' in the lexifier, is used for this function). Iho was also used to indicate the reflexive, whether as a verbal modifier (directional 'down') or more commonly as a pronominal modifier. This was the most common method of indicating the reflexive in the lexifier, so it is possible that the same strategy was used at least in part in the pidgin. Since reflexives are so rare in the data, this possibility must be kept open.
- Type:
- constructed by linguist
- Source:
- Own data