Koita 1988–1990

The elicitations were made in 1988 and 1990 when Haraka Gaudi from Port Moresby came to the University of Toronto in order to pursue a graduate degree in Library Science. We appointed him as Teaching Assistant for our Field Linguistics course (JAL 445). Haraka Gaudi proved to be an inspiring leader and outstanding linguistic resource, and the courses in the relevant years were filled with outstanding students, many of whom went on to become language professionals and professors.

We hope our preliminary studies of this fascinating language, abetted by the good graces of our friend and colleague Haraka Gaudi, will find appreciative and ambitious users who will make good use of it.

The database consists of three parts:
1 Koita analyses
Analyses of Koita linguistic structures from a selection of exceptional research essays with comments and annotations by the professor. There is also a succinct note offering five arguments against the “Maori analysis,” which maintains that Koita stems are consonant-­‐‑final.
2 Koita elicitation
About 200 pages of field notes with material elicited from Haraka Gaudi transcribed in IPA in the hand of the professor (who is the depositor). There is some repetition in the first pages of the two iterations of the course as we begin by eliciting nouns and other small items. The elicitations then become more interesting linguistically as we move to inflected and derived forms, phrases, clauses, embeddings and finally texts.
3 Lexical files
179 lexical entries with headwords in IPA notation, the gloss, the context in which it was elicited, the contextual gloss (“E-­‐‑gloss”), morphology, comments, and its location in the elicitation files.

本次语料诱集工作开展于1988年与1990年，彼时来自莫尔兹比港（Port Moresby）的哈拉卡·高迪（Haraka Gaudi）赴多伦多大学（University of Toronto）攻读图书馆学（Library Science）研究生学位。我们聘请其担任田野语言学课程（Field Linguistics Course，课程编号JAL 445）的教学助理。哈拉卡·高迪展现出极具感染力的领导力与卓越的语言学资源价值，相关学年的课程汇聚了众多优秀学生，其中不少日后成长为语言专业从业者与高校教授。

我们期望，承蒙友人兼同事哈拉卡·高迪鼎力相助完成的这项针对该迷人语言的初步研究，能够获得赏识其价值且富有进取精神的使用者，并得到妥善利用。

本数据集包含三个组成部分：
1. 科伊塔语（Koita）结构分析
精选优质研究论文中针对科伊塔语语言结构的分析内容，附授课教授的点评与注释。此外还包含一篇简洁说明，驳斥了“毛利语分析范式”的五项核心论点——该范式主张科伊塔语词干以辅音结尾。
2. 科伊塔语诱集语料（elicitation）
约200页田野笔记，收录从哈拉卡·高迪处诱集得到的语料，由作为存档者的授课教授以国际音标（IPA）手写转写。由于课程两期的开篇均以诱集名词及其他小型词汇项展开，前几页存在少量重复内容。后续诱集内容逐步转向语言学价值更高的方向：从屈折与派生形式、短语、分句、嵌入结构，最终延伸至完整文本。
3. 词汇文件
包含179条词汇条目，每条均标注有国际音标（IPA）书写的词头、词汇释义、诱集语境、语境释义（"E-gloss"）、形态学（morphology）信息、注释，以及其在诱集语料文件中的位置。