Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT)

汉藏词源词典及同义词库 (STEDT)

• 批准号: 9808952
• 负责人: James Matisoff
• 金额: $ 8.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-12-01 至 1999-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9808952&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sino; Tibetan; Etymological; Dictionary; Thesaurus

9808952MATISOFFThe Sino-Tibetan (ST) languages constitute one of the great language families of the world, with well over a billion speakers. Yet despite the rapid development of ST 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 Tl~esaurus) project was started in 1987, charged with gathering data from both extant published works and the growing body of fieldwork and integrating 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.The reconstructed proto-roots will serve as main entries in the Dictionary, followed by those words which derive from them in the modern ST languages. Along with the first fascicle of the Dictionary itself, a number of electronic and hardcopy versions of materials supporting the reconstructions have been or will be published, including a directory of language names (published in 1995), a compendium of phonological inventories (published in 1997), and detailed sound correspondences in the form of a "sound law database."In order to provide the linguistic community with access to the data in as timely a fashion as possible, the project is planning to modify its approach to the publication of the fascicles. Certain verified and legally distributable portions of the "raw data" in the database will be made available electronically during 1998 via CDROM and the WWW. As new fascicles become ready they will be included in these electronic media, and printed versions will be "demand published" in much the same way that new software releases are created. Thus, users of the database will be able to "upgrade" their versions of the database and fascicles as soon as results become available. While this will make some of the results of the research initially tentative and subject to revision, it will also allow STEDT to make valuable resources quickly available and to collect early feedback on the work from colleagues all over the world.

然而，尽管近几十年来ST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。为了填补这一历史语言学研究的空白，1987年开始了汉藏语源词典和汉藏语源词典（STEDT）项目，负责从现存的出版作品和不断增长的田野调查中收集数据，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”。重建的原词根将作为词典的主要条目，其次是现代科技语言中由其派生的词。随着词典本身的第一册，一些支持重建的材料的电子和硬拷贝版本已经或即将出版，包括语言名称目录（1995年出版），语音清单纲要（1997年出版），以及以“声音法律数据库”形式的详细声音对应。为了尽可能及时地向语言界提供获取数据的途径，该项目正计划修改其出版分册的方法。1998年期间将通过光盘存储和万维网以电子方式提供数据库中某些经核实和合法分发的“原始数据”部分。当新的分册准备就绪时，它们将被包括在这些电子媒体中，而印刷版将以与创建新软件版本大致相同的方式“按需出版”。因此，一旦结果可用，数据库的用户将能够“升级”他们的数据库和集的版本。虽然这将使一些研究结果最初是试探性的，并需要修改，但它也将使STEDT能够迅速提供宝贵的资源，并从世界各地的同事那里收集有关工作的早期反馈。