Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus

本项目开始于1987年，主要是编写一套多卷本的汉藏语（PST）词源词典和原汉藏语词典（PST）。这是中国人及其数百个藏缅族亲戚的后裔。STEDT按语义场组织，最终构成一个原词汇的词库。汉藏语言（典型的单音节和声调）具有不同寻常的文化重要性和理论意义。目前已有数百种结核病语言和方言的词汇数据，但质量参差不齐。这个项目已经创建了一个巨大的质量控制数据库，其中包含历史上重要的词汇材料，包括大约200个已发表和未发表的来源（其中一些是通过问卷征集的），现在总共超过130,000条记录，占用超过60兆字节的磁盘空间。中国和印度语言学家提供的大量新资料得到了优先考虑。这个词法数据库还加入了一个词源数据库，在这个数据库中，所有以前为任何分类级别的ST或其亚群提出的词源都可以进行整理，以供分析和评估。然而，该数据库中重建的大多数根都是相当新的，并且由于该项目汇集了大量数据才得以实现。现在要涵盖的第一个语义区域包括近1000个词根和词根变体，将包括在STEDT的第一卷中，Bodypart Nomenclature，大约有1000页。在新的赠款期间，后续卷的生产将加速进行。STEDT将构成汉藏语系有史以来最全面和准确的文献，并将成为历史语言学研究和语言变化理论的重要资源。

ABSTRACT This project, begun in 1987, is producing a multi-volume Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus of Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST), the ancestor language, spoken perhaps 6000 years ago, from which Chinese and its hundreds of relatives in the Tibeto-Burman (TB) family descend. The organization of STEDT is by semantic fields, so as ultimately to constitute a thesaurus of the proto-lexicon. The Sino-Tibetan (ST)languages (typically monosyllabic and tonal) are of unusual cultural importance and theoretical interest. Lexical data, of uneven quality, is now available for hundreds of TB languages and dialects. This project has already created a vast quality-controlled database of historically significant lexical material, incorporating some 200 published and unpublished sources (some solicited by questionnaire), now totalling over 130,000 records and occupying over 60 megabytes of disk space. Priority has been given to the profusion of new information furnished by Chinese and Indian linguists. To this Lexical Database is joined an Etymological Database, where all etymologies previously proposed for any taxonomic level of ST or its subgroups are collatable for analysis and evaluation. Yet most of the reconstructed roots in this database are quite new, and have only been attainable because of the massive amount of data brought together by this project. The first semantic area to be covered now comprises close to 1000 roots and root variants, to be included in the first volume of STEDT, Bodypart Nomenclature, which will come to roughly one thousand pages. Production of subsequent volumes will proceed at an accelerated rate during the new grant period. The STEDT will constitute the most comprehensive and accurate documentation of the Sino-Tibetan language family ever produced, and will be an important resource for historical linguistic research and theories of language change in general.