Preliminary research for compiling an oral text collection and a dictionary of the Molima language (Bougaiiwille, Papua New Guinea)

1. 我于1999年2月从道格拉斯·l·奥利弗教授那里获得了莫图纳及其邻近语言的手写材料。1938年至1939年，他在巴布亚新几内亚布干维尔进行人类学野外工作时收集了这些材料。在这个项目中，我转录、编辑和计算机化了他收集的所有词汇和部分莫图纳口述文本数据。该项目的重点是创建一个Motima基本词汇的数据库。词汇记录在两种纸卡上（共4146个）。要把卡片上的所有项目抄写出来并用电脑处理，所花的时间比我预期的多得多。然后，我与我在澳大利亚的当地线人仔细核对了每一项。仍然无法识别所有的项目，部分原因是由于岛上的内战，我没有机会与年长的莫图纳人核实，部分原因是奥利弗的口头文本的分析还没有完成，这些文本应该包含卡片上找到的所有单词。无论如何，我们在这个阶段尽可能仔细地检查了它们，完成了一个数据库，并从ILCAA发布了它。这个数据库将作为今后编写一本更全面的莫图纳词典的基础。在审核的最后阶段，我使用了科研资助(A)(2) No.12039246.3资助的“布干维尔（巴布亚新几内亚）巴布亚语：综合研究”研究项目的部分预算。我在科研资助项目(A)(2) No.12039246.4的支持下，继续对上述研究项目的口头文本数据进行研究。在我的研究过程中，澳大利亚国立大学的R.M.W. Dixon教授和Andrew Pawley教授给了我宝贵的建议和建议。

1. I obtained handwritten materials of Motuna and its neighbouring languages from Professor Douglas L. Oliver in February 1999. He collected these materials during his anthropological field work in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, in 1938-39. In this project I transcribed, edited and computerised all of the vocabulary and part of the oral text data of Motuna collected by him.2. The focus of the project was on creating a database of the basic vocabulary of Motima. The vocabulary items were recorded on two kinds of paper cards (4,146 in total). It required much more time than I load expected to transcribe and computerise all the items on the cards. I then checked each item carefully with my native informants in Australia. It was still not possible to identify all the items, partly because I had no opportunity to check them with, older speakers of Motuna due to the civil war on the island and partly because the analysis of Oliver's oral texts, which are supposed to contain all the words found on the cards, lias not been completed yet. Any way we checked them as carefully as we can at this stage, completed a database, and published it from ILCAA. This database will be used as a basis for compiling a more comprehensive dictionary of Motuna in the foture. At the final stage of checking I used part of the budget of the research project titled "Papuan Languages of Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) : A Comprehensive Study" under the support of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(2) No.12039246.3. I continue working on the oral text data in the above-mentioned research project under the support of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(2) No.12039246.4. Professors R.M.W. Dixon and Andrew Pawley of the Australian National University gave me valuable suggestions and advice during my research.