New vocab on flex? Yes! 
From class 3/31 
Particular people call Sisilia “yaca” means “namesake”? People don’t call her by her name because it’s connected to chiefs, they call her yaca / na levu 
Address forms/evocative forms vs. referential forms? 
Plan 
1. Begin transcribing conversation (ELAN 5.8) 
2. Kinship term stuff 
a. Try working from Gary’s kinship diagram here 
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1Di4kuSJJcPV4ckXHOF5SJ7dBAq1Ql QuB 
3. Continue with wh-questions 
a. From last time 
i. O amamu e lai ‘obo vuaxa segasega ‘Your father is hunting pigs’ 
ii. O cei o amamu e lai ‘oboxa? ‘What is your father hunting?’ 
iii. *O cei o amamu e lai ‘obo? 
iv. Try to tease apart that ‘oboxa vs. ‘obo distinction 
b. Continuing 
i. ‘You bought the man’s book’ 
ii. Bua: 
iii. ‘Whose book did you buy? 
iv. Bua: 
v. 3P: ‘She bought the man’s book’ 
vi. Bua: 
vii. ‘Whose book did she buy?’ 
viii. Bua: 
Subject-wh 
ix. ‘She washed the man’s car’ 
x. Bua: 
xi. ‘Who washed the man’s car?’ 
xii. Bua: (expected) O cei 
xiii. ‘He lives in Vanua Levu.’ 
xiv. Bua: 
xv. ‘Where does he live?’ 
xvi. Bua:
Check for acceptability of multiple wh-word constructions 
xvii. ‘Who ate what?’ 
xviii. ‘Who went where?’ 
Check for floated quantifier 
xix. ‘Will they read this book?’ 
xx. Will they all read this book?’ 
xxi. ‘Which book will they read?’ 
xxii. ‘Which book will they all read?’ 
4. Spatial language -- this could be done by working with Sisilia to draw a map of her village and then asking about how to go between various places, e.g., from a house to the beach, from one house to the other, from the garden to the house, etc. 5. Time expression 
6. Numerals (cardinal, ordinal, fractions, counting, etc.) 
7. Deictics 
8. 
Notes 
New wav file 
(0:05 Sisilia) 
ia xena ma’ai 
The first.. 
-Sar says “laxo” before this recording (to mean “go” or “start”) but Sisilia says there’s a better phrase 
→ (xemu)druxa exevu is correct 
-She did say that “laxo” would be fine to start/begin a game/competition however 
(0:09 Seru) 
Io 
Yes; right 
(0:10 Sisilia) 
Dro’ou… 
(0:14 Sisilia)
Dro’ou a xena a lewe va ‘ixo 
Four of them (referring to the pictures) 
Lewe = group 
Va = four 
(0:18 Sisilia) 
‘Agane e ‘ara ‘ixo e tuga ava ni bia (avanibia - easier on the eyes, better as one word) The man is holding a bottle of beer 
‘Agane = man 
‘Ara = hold 
Tuga = one 
Ava = bottle 
Bia = beer 
Ava ni bia can be written as avanibia (lexicalization?) 
Likely similar to waininiu (coconut water) 
(0:26 Sisilia) 
Xai o druxa a vei tau bexa 
They’re probably friends 
Veitau = friends 
Bexa = maybe 
(0:34 Seru) 
Gona o xina 
That one 
(0:34 Sisilia) 
O druxa vei ‘alanoa ‘ixo io gona nabava 
They are telling a story in number 4 (the fourth picture) 
Nabava = the fourth 
Naba = number? +va (four) 
(0:42 Seru) 
Oi o xea gona nabava 
Oh, that one is number 4 
Oi = oh, okay (realization?) ; Sisilia says slight surprise 
(0:42 Sisilia)
Io 
Right 
(0:44 Seru) 
Oi me ma’ai ni ‘aba o xea gona 
Oh, so that one (that picture) should be the first - complement clause introducer? (Dixon ch24) - could this be a pragmatic usage of “me”? ‘Aba = picture 
Ma’ai = first 
Me = PURP (“should” interpretation) 
(0:47 Sisilia) 
Io 
Right 
(0:48 Sisilia) 
O xea gona se cava a omu nanuma 
What do you think of that particular one? 
Se cava = what 
Omu = your (contrast with oxu = mine) 
Nanuma = thoughts 
(0:52 Sisilia) 
Sai o gona ‘alanoa a xena laxolaxo 
That is the story tale 
Laxolaxo = refers to how the story is told/unfolds 
(0:57 Seru) 
Io e dau 
Yes, it is. 
Au diva ‘ixo ni bale’a ni bera ni exevu ‘ixo ai ‘aba naba ono I see that.. Because before the start of the 6th picture.. 
Diva = to see (Seru’s dialect; Sisilia would use tiva) Ono = six