Construction of a Corpus of the Old Uighur Letters from Central Asia

在这三年中，我用日语和英语发表了一篇题为《东方丝绸之路古维吾尔书信的书信体公式（上、下）》的长文。这项研究提供了我目前工作的一个阶段，重点是公式和特殊术语，作为选择字母的标准。为了尽可能多地从世界各地的研究所、图书馆和博物馆所保存的古维吾尔语文献中挑选出字母，首先需要分析完整的或几乎完整的字母，识别字母特有的特殊术语，并在此基础上从甚至很小的碎片中恢复字母，通过重复这一过程，最终得出仅用于字母的公式和常规短语。本研究与我正在准备出版的《东丝绸之路古维吾尔文语料库》研究卷相对应。

In these three years I have published a long article entitled “Epistolary Formulae of the Old Uighur Letters from the Eastern Silk Road (Part 1 and 2)” both in Japanese and in English. This study offers a present stage of my work, with a focus on the formulae and specialterms that served as criteria for the selection of letters. In order to pick out as many letters as possible from among the Old Uighur documents held by the institutes, libraries, and museums around the world, it is first necessary to analyze complete or almost complete letters, identify the special terms distinctive of letters, recover on this basis letters from among even small fragments, and by repeating this process ultimately educe the formulae and conventional phrases used only in letters. This study corresponds to the research volume of the Corpus of the Old Uighur Letters from the Eastern Silk Road, which I am currently preparing for publication.