Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus

汉藏语（ST）是世界上最大的语族之一。然而，尽管近几十年来汉藏研究发展迅速，但对它们的了解仍然很少；事实上，这个家族的一些分支实际上还没有被研究过。为了填补历史语言学研究的空白，STEDT（汉藏语词源词典和辞典）项目从现存的出版作品和不断增长的实地工作中收集数据，并将它们整合成一个连贯的整体。该项目的具体目标是出版一部祖先语言的词源学词典，原始汉藏语（PST），大约6000年前使用。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。

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."