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

1.我从道格拉斯教授那里得到了有关摩图纳及其邻近语言的手写材料。奥利弗在1999年2月。1938-39年，他在巴布亚新几内亚的布干维尔进行人类学田野调查时收集了这些材料。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语文本数据。该项目的重点是建立一个Motima基本词汇数据库。词汇项目记录在两种纸卡片上（共4，146个）。它需要更多的时间比我加载预期转录和计算机上的所有项目卡。然后，我与我在澳大利亚的本地线人仔细检查了每一件物品。现在还不可能确定所有的项目，部分原因是我没有机会检查它们，由于岛上的内战，莫图纳岛的老年人说，部分原因是对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。该数据库将作为今后编纂更全面的莫图纳语词典的基础。在检查的最后阶段，我使用了题为“布干维尔（巴布亚新几内亚）的巴布亚语：综合研究”的研究项目的部分预算，该项目得到了科学研究补助金（A）（2）第12039246.3号的支持。在科研资助项目（A）（2）第12039246.4号的支持下，我继续进行上述研究项目中的口头文本数据工作。R.M.W.教授澳大利亚国立大学的狄克逊和安德鲁·波利在我的研究期间给了我宝贵的建议和意见。

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.