Te rereke koia! - Weird Sentences in Maori

Tena koutou!

So this episode I briefly chat on where I am at in my learning journey and some of the struggles I experience. I try to answer my own question of how to keep moving in my journey towards the reo.

Our topic of discussion are some weird sentences I came across, which I find super interesting. I cite Fumiko S. Yamada's dissertation:

Maori as a phrase based language, 2014. Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. pg. 161-

They cite, Boyce, Mary. 2006. A corpus of modern spoken Māori. Wellington: Victoria University of

Wellington dissertation.

(5.74) I mua o te whaka.tuwhera.tanga.hia o te marae nei nā…

at before POSS DET cause.open.NMLZ.PASS POSS DET marae here there

‘Before the opening of these marae…’

There are cases of -Canga attached to -Cia:

(5.75) …i mua o te kati.a.tanga o ngā hōhipera puta noa

at before POSS DET shut.PASS.NMLZ POSS DET.PL hospital throughout

‘…before the hospital’s being shut