Sino Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus

在国家科学基金会的支持下，詹姆斯·A·马蒂索夫博士将完成汉藏词源词典和同义词词典项目(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。这个项目的使命是澄清汉藏语的历史，汉藏语是世界上最大的语言家族之一，一方面有超过10亿的使用者，其中包括汉语，另一方面是广大的藏缅语族中250种未被研究的语言。为了实现这一目标，STEDT创建了这些语言的大型计算机数据库(最近一次统计接近70万个)，从500多个来源中精选出来，从出版的词典和词表到向实地研究人员征求的问卷。STEDT不断出版出版物，最终出版了800页的《原始藏缅人手册：汉藏重建的制度和哲学》(加州大学出版社，2003年8月)。在这本书中，重建了所有现代汉藏语的祖先语言，原始藏缅语和/或原始汉藏语的2800多个词根的读音和意义。在项目的最后阶段，将在赠款期间完成，重点将转移到电子出版物上，使我们的数据和分析成为公共领域的一部分。STEDT项目已经推动了对东亚和东南亚语言的研究，并将有助于进一步确定关于这一复杂地区所有语系之间的相互关系的问题，包括泰-卡达语、蒙-高棉语、南岛语和苗语。

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.