Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus

汉藏(ST)语言是世界上最大的语系之一。然而，尽管近几十年来汉藏学研究发展迅速，但人们对它们的了解仍然很少；事实上，汉藏学的一些分支仍然几乎没有人研究。为了填补历史语言学研究的这一真空，《汉藏词源词典与同义词词典》项目从现存的已出版著作和不断增加的田野调查中收集数据，并将它们整合为一个连贯的整体。该项目的具体目标是出版一本关于大约6000年前使用的祖先语言原始汉藏(PST)的词源词典。该词典是按语义场组织的，因此它将构成一部科技词典。已经建立了一个词源和词典信息的大型计算机数据库，以支持出版该词典所需的研究。该数据库由一个词汇文件(目前包含约200种语言和方言的190,000多个单词)、一个词源文件(包含2,400多个重构)和辅助文件组成，这些文件包含对语言名称的引用、书目引用、广泛的词源注释和语义图。词汇数据的来源从出版的词典和词表到向现场研究人员索要的问卷。除《词典》外，还将出版支持重建的材料的电子版和硬拷贝版，其中包括语言名称目录、音系库简编和“健全法律数据库”形式的详细声音对应。

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."