LINGUIST List 22.747 Mon Feb 14 2011 Qs: Help with Hawaiian: Resources and Translation Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Ljuba Veselinova , Help with Hawaiian: Resources and Translation Message 1: Help with Hawaiian: Resources and Translation Date: 11-Feb-2011 From: Ljuba Veselinova <ljubaling.su.se> Subject: Help with Hawaiian: Resources and Translation E-mail this message to a friend Dear All, I need help with Hawaiian: locating literature and also someone who can help me translate some 100 sentences. I am working on negative existentials and their possible evolution into markers of standard negation. In Kahananui and Anthony (1975), I found the examples shown in (1) below: (1) a. 'a'ohe      o        lākou   hana NEG.EX POSS 3.PL    work 'they didn't work' (Kahananui and Anthony, 1975: 372) b. 'a'ohe      ā        lākou   hana NEG.EX POSS 3.PL    work 'they had no work' (Kahananui and Anthony, 1975: 372) c. 'a'ohe      o'u              'ike/lohe   au  iā      ia NEG.EX 1.SG.POSS see/hear  I    OBJ  3SG 'I can't see/hear him/her', (Kahananui and Anthony, 1975: 346) I am wondering about the following: --how common is it to use possessive constructions to indicate completeness of action? --is there a preferred negator for these constructions? I have read Wilson (1976) as well as Chung (1973) and Chung and Seiter (1980). However, since these constructions are obviously a huge issue in Polynesian linguistics, there must be more recent sources on them that I must have missed. As already mentioned, my interest lies in their use to indicate completed actions/states and the way they are negated for these uses; I haven't been able to locate any literature on this so any pointers will be greatly appreciated. I asked Ph.D. students at the the University of Hawaii but they said there isn't much written on this issue so I'm now trying exhaust all possible sources. My other sources for Hawaiian have been Hawkins (1982) and Schütz, Albert J., Kahāho'omahu Kanada, Gary N., and Cook, Kenneth W. (2005). As I said above, I am looking for help with rough translation of Hawaiian examples. Martyn Harris helped me with text compilation and concordances last summer. The texts come from newspapers in Hawaiian from 1864 as well as from modern blogs. I have located constructions like the ones in (1) in these texts but I am highly insecure of my translation. They amount to 96 examples; I need someone who knows Hawaiian well enough to tell me if I am deciphering the constructions right or not. Thank you in advance for your time and help. My best wishes, Ljuba References Chung, Sandra. 1973. The Syntax of Nominalizations in Polynesian.Oceanic Linguistics 12:641-686. Chung, Sandra, and Seiter, William J. 1980. The History of Raising and Relativization in Polynesian. Language 56:622-638. Elbert, Samuel H., and Pukui, Mary Kawena. 1979. Hawaiian Grammar. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [Reprinted in 2001]. Hawkins, Emily. 1982. Pedagogical Grammar of Hawaiian. Honolulu: Hawaiian Studies Program: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Kahananui, Dorothy M., and Anthony, Alberta P. 1975. E Kama'ilio Hawai'i Kakou (Let's Speak Hawaiian). Honolulu: The University Pressof Hawaii. [Reprinted in 1975]. Schütz, Albert J., Kahāho'omahu Kanada, Gary N., and Cook, Kenneth William. 2005. Pocket Hawaiian Grammar. Waipahu: Island Heritage Publishing. Wilson, William H. 1976. The o/a Distinction in Hawaiian Possessives [summer-winter]. Oceanic Linguistics 15:39-50. Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Typology Subject Language(s): Hawaiian (haw) New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.