Re: Kamakawi Adjectives and Adverbs

Larry wrote:
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"Ka kama ei ie puka tiki"

mean

"I painted the door red."

or

"I painted the red door."

?
 >>

It's ambiguous.  :)  I've often thought about intonation, and if
that would differentiate the two...  I think it might, in that the
stress on ['pu.ka] would be more pronounced in the N-ADV
version than the N-ADJ version.  I haven't given much thought
to transcribing the way I speak it, though, so this could be an
artefact of my saying it right now with the idea in mind.

Of course, it's easy enough to remedy this:

Tiki, ka kama ei ie puka.
(Adverbial interpretation is the only possible interpretation.)

Or...

Ka kama'u puka ti'i tiki.
/TNS paint-PASS. door by-me red/
"The door was painted red by me."

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