Sino Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus

该奖项支持《汉藏词源辞典》（STEDT）的一系列升级活动，该工作始于1987年，得到了国家科学基金会和国家人文基金会的资助。STEDT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10亿的使用者，一方面由汉语组成，另一方面由250种未被研究的藏缅语系组成。为了实现这一目标，STEDT建立了大型计算机数据库，从500多个来源（包括已出版的词典和词表、实地调查问卷）中挑选出近100万个这些语言的单词，以及3000个汉藏原始词根和词根变体。这项奖金将支助的活动包括进一步发展数据库；继续进行词源学研究，特别是比较汉语和藏缅语；西藏-缅甸族、库基-钦族、那迦族、喜马拉雅族、羌族、卡列尼族、Nungish族和博多-加罗族几个藏缅亚群的新研究；建立一个永久的公共档案，保存原始项目数据和项目发现。

This award supports a range of activities to upgrade the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT), which was begun in 1987, and which has been supported by grants from both the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment of the Humanities. STEDT's mission is to clarify 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 almost 1,000,000 words from these languages, culled from some 500 sources, ranging from published dictionaries and wordlists to questionnaires solicited from field researchers, and 3,000 proto-Sino-Tibetan roots and root variants. Among the activities to be supported by this award are further development of the database; continued etymological research, particularly comparing Chinese and Tibeto-Burman; new research on several Tibeto-Burman subgroups, including Lolo-Burmese, Kuki-Chin, Naga, Himalayish, Qiangic, Karenic, Nungish and Bodo-Garo; and the creation of a permanent public archive of both the raw project data and project findings.