Trial Development of Folktales' Motif Database and Numerical Analysis of the Structure of Narrative

1.从StithThompson的《民间文学主题索引》中提取基本数据，输入东京外国语大学亚非语言文化研究所的HITACM-640/35大型计算机。2.在Martinet的功能主义模式下，提出了“母题的双重表达”：在第一个表达中，母题（即，由主语和谓语组成的命题）被分解为“母题-单位”，即客位元素（民间故事中叙述的人物、行动和行动的环境）。在第二次发音时，基元-素位被分解为“基元-义位”，即一组语义特征，而主位成分则存在于这些特征之间的关系网络中。该方法可应用于基于主位元素的民间故事形态合成和基于客位元素的变异分析。3.在Tesniere的“actant”模型上，从一组基本数据中提取出1,100个母题--单元位：391个等同器械（一般动词）表示“过程”和719个动作4.在确定了数据库的逻辑结构之后，我们开始了第二次拼接（从基元-素元到基元-义素）。利用母题数据库和另一个以LIST形式包含民间故事本身的数据库，对民间故事进行数值分析的方法正在研究之中。

1.We extracted basic data from Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature and inputted them on HITAC M-640/35 main-frame computer at Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). The data will constitute our Folktales' Motif Database.2.On the model of Martinet's functionalism, the "double articulation of motif" is proposed : at the first articulation, motif (i.e., a proposition composed of subject and predicate) is decomposed into "motif-monemes", that is, etic elements (character, action, and circumstances of the action, narrated in a folktale). At the second articulation, motif-moneme is decomposed into "motif-semes", that is, a bundle of semantic features, and emic element consist in a network of the relations among these features. This method can be applied to synthesis of morphology of folktale, based on emic element and analysis of variation based on etic element.3.On the model of Tesniere's "actant", 1,100 motif-monemes are abstracted from a basic data : 391 predicates (verbs in general) which signify a "process" and 719 actants (substantives), including accessorial elements.4.After the determination of logical structure of our database, we start the second articulation (from a motif-moneme to motif-semes). The method of numerical analysis of folktales, by the use of motif's database and another database which contains folktale itself in the form of LIST,is under examination.