Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

该项目的主要目标是制作一部有5,000至5,500个基本词条和大约2,000个附加形式的南岛语比较词典。次要目标包括建立一个可用于各种目的的电子数据库(研究特别是子语的发音变化、重建形式的统计研究等)。数据将来自大约120种经证明的语文，所有这些语文都曾在过去的出版物中被PI使用过。由于时间原因，该项目将在很大程度上限于将大约220页未出版的初步研究材料与各种零星出版物整合在一起，并对奥托·邓普沃夫，Vergleichende Lautlehre des Austronesischen Wortschatze(1938)中的材料进行批判性的重新评估。发表的结果将包含Dempwolff(1938)最新正字法中条目数量的两倍以上，反向英语-南岛索引，以及以下在Dempwolff中找不到的特征：1.词缀形式，2.所有词根的相对时间深度的明确指示，3.详细的语义重构，4.对重构的注释，5.亚形态根的附录。预计这些结果不仅对南岛专家，而且对长期比较学者以及对岛屿、东南亚和太平洋感兴趣的社会人类学家和史前学者都具有重大和持久的价值。

ABSTRACT The primary objective of this project is to produce an Austronesian comparative dictionary with between 5,000 and 5,500 base entries and about 2,000 additional affixed forms. Secondary objectives include the creation of an electronically acessible data-base which can serve a variety of purposes (studies of sound change in particular daughter languages, statistical studies of reconstructed forms, etc.). Data will be drawn from about 120 attested languages, all of which have been used by the PI in past publications. For reasons of time the project will be largely limited to integrating about 220 pages of unpublished pilot study material with various scattered publications and a critical reassessment of the material in Otto Dempwolff, Vergleichende Lautlehre des austronesischen Wortschatzes (1938). The published result will contain well over twice the number of entries in Dempwolff (1938) in an up-to-date orthography, a reverse English- Austronesian Index, and the following features which are not found in Dempwolff: 1. affixed forms, 2. an explicit indication of relative time-depth for all etyma, 3. detailed semantic reconstructions, 4. annotations to the reconstructions, 5. an appendix of submorphemic roots. It is anticipated that the results will be of great and lasting value not only to Austronesian specialists, but also to long-range comparativists and to social anthropologists and prehistorians interested in island Southeast Asia and the Pacific.