Sino Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，詹姆斯·A. Matisoff将完成汉藏语源词典和主题词表项目（STEDT）的最后一个周期，该项目于1987年在加州大学伯克利分校成立。该项目的使命是澄清汉藏语系的历史，汉藏语系是世界上最大的语系之一，有超过10亿人使用，一方面包括汉语，另一方面包括庞大的藏缅族的250种未得到充分研究的语言。为了实现这一目标，STEDT创建了这些语言的大型计算机词汇数据库（最新统计近700，000），从500多个来源中挑选，从出版的字典和词表到实地研究人员的问卷调查。STEDT出版了一系列稳定的出版物，最终在800页的原始藏缅语手册中达到顶峰：《汉藏重建的制度与哲学》（加州大学出版社，2003年8月）。 在这本书中，超过2800个词根的发音和意义被重建为所有现代汉藏语系语言的祖先语言，原始藏缅语和/或原始汉藏语。 在该项目的最后阶段（将在本资助期内完成），重点将转移到电子出版物，使我们的数据和分析成为公共领域的一部分。STEDT项目已经推进了对东亚和东南亚语言的研究，并将有助于进一步确定世界上这个复杂地区所有语系之间的相互关系，包括Tai-Kadai，Mon-Khmer，Austronesian和Hmong-Mien。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. James A. Matisoff will complete the final cycle of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT), which was founded in 1987 at the University of California, Berkeley. This project has the mission of clarifying the history of Sino-Tibetan, one of the greatest linguistic families of the world, with over a billion speakers, consisting of Chinese on the one hand, and the 250 understudied languages of the vast Tibeto-Burman group on the other. To achieve this goal, STEDT has created large computer databases of words from these languages (almost 700,000 at last count), culled from over 500 sources, ranging from published dictionaries and wordlists to questionnaires solicited from field researchers.STEDT has produced a steady stream of publications, culminating in the 800-page Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: system and philosophy of Sino-Tibetan reconstruction (University of California Press, August, 2003). In this book, the pronunciations and meanings of over 2800 roots are reconstructed for the ancestor languages from which all the modern Sino-Tibetan languages descend, Proto-Tibeto-Burman and/or Proto-Sino-Tibetan. During the final stages of the project, to be accomplished during this grant period, the focus will be shifted to electronic publication, making our data and analyses part of the public domain. The STEDT project has already advanced the state of research into East and Southeast Asian languages, and will help to decide further questions about the interrelationships among all the language families of this complex region of the world, including Tai-Kadai, Mon-Khmer, Austronesian, and Hmong-Mien.