Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus

SBR-9511034 MATISOFF 摘要 汉藏语系是世界上最大的语系之一。然而，尽管近几十年来汉藏语系研究发展迅速，但人们对它们的了解仍然很少;事实上，该家族的某些分支仍然几乎没有研究。为了填补历史语言学研究中的这一空白，《汉藏语源词典和叙词表》项目从现存的出版著作和不断增长的田野工作中收集数据，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本关于大约6000年前使用的原始汉藏语（PST）的词源词典。词典是按语义场组织的，因此它将构成PST的“同义词库”。 已经建立了一个大型的词源和词典信息计算机数据库，以支持出版词典所需的研究。这个数据库包括一个词汇文件（包含大约200种语言和方言的190，000多个单词），一个词源文件（包含2，400多个重建），以及包含语言名称参考、书目引用、广泛的词源注释和语义图的辅助文件。词汇数据的来源从出版的词典和词表到从外地研究人员那里征集的问卷调查。沿着出版的还有支持重建的材料的电子版和印刷版，包括语言名称目录、语音目录简编以及以“语音法数据库”形式出现的详细语音对应。"

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."