Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT)

汉藏词源词典及同义词库 (STEDT)

• 批准号: 9904950
• 负责人: James Matisoff
• 金额: $ 18万
• 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: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-02-01 至 2003-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9904950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sino; Tibetan; Etymological; Dictionary; Thesaurus

The Sino-Tibetan languages, comprising Chinese and Tibeto-Burman (TB), constitute one of the great language families of the world, with well over a billion speakers. Yet they remain poorly understood; indeed, some branches of the TB family are still virtually unstudied. To fill this vacuum in historical linguistic research, the STEDT (Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus) 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 ultimate goal of the project is the publication of an etymological dictionary of the ancestor language, Proto-Sino-Tibetan, 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. At this point about 70,000 morphemes in the lexical file (ca. 20%) have been etymologized into cognate sets. The first Fascicle of Vol. I (Body-part Terminology) has been approved for publication. Preparation of the subsequent Fascicles and Volumes is proceeding concurrently.In the new grant period, a series of phonologically organized Historical/Comparative Handbooks will be prepared for the various subgroups of the TB family, beginning with Lolo-Burmese. This will allow the rigorous formulation of sound-laws and the refinement of our 'Sound-law Data-base', against which future reconstructions may be tested. In this manner the STEDT project will proceed both along semantic and phonological lines. In order to provide the linguistic community with access to data and results in a timely fashion, the project will move towards publication via CD-ROM and the WWW. Along with the fascicles of the Dictionary itself, electronic versions of other STEDT publications will quickly be made available, including published volumes of the STEDT Monograph Series and back issues of our semiannual journal Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area.

汉藏语系由汉语和藏缅语组成，是世界上最大的语系之一，使用者超过十亿。然而，人们对它们的了解仍然很少。事实上，结核病家族的一些分支实际上仍未得到研究。为了填补历史语言学研究中的这一空白，STEDT（汉藏词源词典和同义词库）项目于 1987 年启动，负责从现有已出版的著作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。该项目的最终目标是出版大约 6000 年前使用的祖先语言——原始汉藏语的词源词典。该词典是按语义领域组织的，因此它将构成PST的“同义词库”。已经创建了一个包含词源和词典编目信息的大型计算机数据库，以支持出版该词典所需的研究。此时，词汇文件中大约 70,000 个语素（约 20%）已被词源化为同源集。 第一卷的分册。 I（身体部位术语）已获准出版。后续分册和各卷的准备工作正在同时进行。在新的资助期内，将从彝语缅甸语开始，为 TB 语系的各个亚组准备一系列按音韵组织的历史/比较手册。 这将允许严格制定声音法则并完善我们的“声音法则数据库”，并可用于测试未来的重建。 通过这种方式，STEDT 项目将沿着语义和语音路线进行。为了向语言界提供及时的数据和结果，该项目将通过 CD-ROM 和 WWW 进行发布。除了词典本身的分册外，其他 STEDT 出版物的电子版本也将很快推出，包括 STEDT 专着系列的出版卷和我们半年刊《藏缅地区语言学》的过刊。