Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus

汉藏词源词典及同义词库

• 批准号: 9511034
• 负责人: James Matisoff
• 金额: $ 24.8万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-12-01 至 1998-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9511034&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sino; Tibetan; Etymological; Dictionary; Thesaurus

SBR-9511034 MATISOFF ABSTRACT The Sino-Tibetan (ST) languages constitute one of the great language families of the world. Yet despite the rapid development of Sino-Tibetan studies in recent decades, they remain poorly understood; indeed, some branches of the family are still virtually unstudied. To fill this vacuum in historical linguistic research, the STEDT (Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus) project gatheres data from both extant published works and the growing body of field work and intergrates them into a coherent whole. The concrete goal of the project is the publication of an etymological dictionary of the ancestor language, Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST), spoken perhaps 6000 years ago. The Dictionary is organized by semantic fields, so it will constitute a "thesaurus" of PST. A large computer database of etymological and lexicographic information has been created to support the research required to publish the Dictionary. This database consists of a lexical file (containing at this time over l90,000 words in about 200 languages and dialects), an etyma file (containing over 2,400 reconstructions), and ancillary files containing references to language names, bibliographic citations, extensive etymological notes, and semantic diagrams. Sources for lexical data range from published dictionaries and wordlists to questionnaires solicited from fleld researchers. Along with the Dictionary, electronic and hardcopy versions of materials supporting the reconstructions will be published, including a directory of language names, a compendium of phonological inventories, and detailed sound correspondences in the form of a "sound law database."

该词典是按语义字段组织的，因此它将构成一个PST的“同义词库”。一个包含词源学和词典学信息的大型计算机数据库已经创建，以支持出版词典所需的研究。这个数据库包括一个词法文件（包含当时大约200种语言和方言中的190,000多个单词）、一个词源文件（包含超过2400个重构）和辅助文件，其中包含对语言名称、书目引用、大量词源注释和语义图的参考。词汇数据的来源范围从出版的词典和词表到从实地研究人员征求的问卷调查。与词典一起出版的还有支持重建的电子和硬拷贝材料，包括语言名称目录、语音清单汇编和以“语音法律数据库”形式的详细语音对应。