Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus

摘要 这个项目始于1987年，正在制作一本多卷本的 原始汉藏语词源词典与叙词表 (PST)，祖先语言，大约6000年前，从 中国人和他们在藏缅族的数百个亲戚 (TB)家人下降。 STEDT的组织是语义的 领域，从而最终构成一个同义词的 原始词汇 汉藏语系（ST）语言（通常是单音节的， 音调）具有不寻常的文化重要性和理论 兴趣 质量参差不齐的词法数据现在可用于 数百种结核病语言和方言。 该项目已经 创建了一个庞大的质量控制数据库， 重要的词汇材料，包括约200出版 和未公布的来源（一些通过问卷征求），现在 总计超过130，000条记录，占用超过60兆字节的 磁盘空间 优先考虑的是大量新的 由中国和印度语言学家提供的信息。 本 词汇数据库加入了词源数据库，其中所有 词源学以前提出的任何分类水平的ST或 其分组可供整理，以供分析和评价。 然而 该数据库中的大多数重建的根是相当新的， 而这一切之所以能够实现， 这些数据是由这个项目收集的。 第一语义区 现在要覆盖的包括近1000个根和根 变体，将被纳入STEDT的第一卷，车身部分 这本书大约有一千页。 后续卷的生产将加速进行， 在新的补助期内。 STEDT将是最全面的， 对汉藏语系的精确记录 这将是一个重要的历史资源， 语言学研究和语言变化理论。

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a vast quality-controlled database of historically significant lexical material, incorporating some 200 published and unpublished sources (some solicited by questionnaire), now totalling over 130,000 records and occupying over 60 megabytes of disk space.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.