Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

本项目的主要目标是制作一部南岛语比较词典，其中包含5,000至5,500个基本条目和约2,000个附加表格。次要目标包括建立一个可用于各种目的的电子数据库（研究特别子语言的声音变化、重建形式的统计研究等）。数据将取自大约120种经证实的语文，所有这些语文都已被PI在过去的出版物中使用。由于时间的原因，该项目将主要限于将大约220页未发表的试点研究材料与各种分散的出版物相结合，并对Otto Dempwolff， Vergleichende laulaulehre des austronesischen Wortschatzes（1938）中的材料进行批判性重新评估。出版的结果将包含Dempwolff（1938）中最新正字法条目数量的两倍以上，反向英语-南岛语索引，以及Dempwolff中没有的以下特征：2.粘贴表格；所有词源的相对时间深度的明确指示，3。3 .详细的语义重构；5.对重建的注释；亚语素词根的附录预计这些结果不仅对南岛专家，而且对长期比较学家、对东南亚岛屿和太平洋感兴趣的社会人类学家和史前历史学家都将具有重大和持久的价值。

ABSTRACT The primary objective of this project is to produce an Austronesian comparative dictionary with between 5,000 and 5,500 base entries and about 2,000 additional affixed forms. Secondary objectives include the creation of an electronically acessible data-base which can serve a variety of purposes (studies of sound change in particular daughter languages, statistical studies of reconstructed forms, etc.). Data will be drawn from about 120 attested languages, all of which have been used by the PI in past publications. For reasons of time the project will be largely limited to integrating about 220 pages of unpublished pilot study material with various scattered publications and a critical reassessment of the material in Otto Dempwolff, Vergleichende Lautlehre des austronesischen Wortschatzes (1938). The published result will contain well over twice the number of entries in Dempwolff (1938) in an up-to-date orthography, a reverse English- Austronesian Index, and the following features which are not found in Dempwolff: 1. affixed forms, 2. an explicit indication of relative time-depth for all etyma, 3. detailed semantic reconstructions, 4. annotations to the reconstructions, 5. an appendix of submorphemic roots. It is anticipated that the results will be of great and lasting value not only to Austronesian specialists, but also to long-range comparativists and to social anthropologists and prehistorians interested in island Southeast Asia and the Pacific.