Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus

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The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus
AuthorJames A. Matisoff
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLinguistics
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publication date
2015
Websitestedt.berkeley.edu

The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (commonly abbreviated STEDT) was a linguistics research project hosted at the University of California at Berkeley. The project, which focused on Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics, started in 1987 and lasted until 2015.

James Matisoff was the director of STEDT for nearly three decades.[1]

The Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area journal, now published by Benjamins Pub. Co., was also part of the STEDT project.[2] In addition, the International Conferences on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) were mostly organized by STEDT project members since the 1990s.[3]

Overview[]

In 1987, James Matisoff began the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) project, which aimed to produce an etymological dictionary of Sino-Tibetan languages organized by semantic field. The project maintains a large, publicly accessible lexical database of nearly one million records, with data on Sino-Tibetan languages from over 500 sources. This database is used to identify and mark cognates for the purposes of better understanding the historical development of the Sino-Tibetan language family and the subgroupings of the languages therein, and to reconstruct the theoretical proto-language of the language family. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).[4]

Members[]

Project members were known as "STEDTniks," and included , , Randy J. LaPolla, David Mortensen, , , , Graham Thurgood, , Kenneth VanBik, John B. Lowe ("J.B. Lowe"), Liberty Lidz, Daniel Bruhn, Dominic Yu, among other linguists.[5]

Publications[]

Preliminary results from the STEDT project were published in Matisoff's 2003 monograph Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction (HPTB).[5] In 2008, Matisoff published a monograph on Proto-Tibeto-Burman reconstructions for reproductive system vocabulary.[6]

The final release of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus was published in 2015 by Matisoff,[7] with an online version also available.[8]

Monographs[]

The STEDT Monograph Series, published by the STEDT project, has 10 books.[9]

  • STEDT Monograph 1A: Randy J. LaPolla and John B. Lowe (eds.). Bibliography of the International Conferences on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics I-XXV.
  • STEDT Monograph 2: James A. Matisoff (ed.). Languages and Dialects of Tibeto-Burman. ISBN 0-944613-26-8
  • STEDT Monograph 3: Ju Namkung (ed.). Phonological Inventories of Tibeto-Burman Languages. ISBN 0-944613-28-4
  • STEDT Monograph 4: David Bradley. Southern Lisu Dictionary. ISBN 0-944613-43-8
  • STEDT Monograph 5: Richard S. Cook. Classical Chinese Combinatorics: Derivation of the Book of Changes Hexagram Sequence. ISBN 0-944613-44-6
  • STEDT Monograph 6: Paul K. Benedict. Kinship in Southeastern Asia. ISBN 0-944613-45-4
  • STEDT Monograph 7: Helga So-Hartmann. A Descriptive Grammar of Daai Chin. ISBN 0-944613-46-2
  • STEDT Monograph 8: Kenneth VanBik. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. ISBN 0-944613-47-0
  • STEDT Monograph 9: Richard Cook. The Eastern Han Chinese Grammaticon. ISBN 0-944613-48-9
  • STEDT Monograph 10: Christopher Button. Proto Northern Chin. ISBN 0-944613-49-7

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Over 400 Languages May Have Originated in China. (June 3, 2019) Language Magazine.
  2. ^ Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
  3. ^ International Conferences on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL)
  4. ^ National Science Foundation
  5. ^ a b Matisoff, James A. (2003), Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-09843-5.
  6. ^ Matisoff, James A. 2008. The Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System: Toward an Etymological Thesaurus. University of California publications in linguistics. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  7. ^ Matisoff, James A. 2015. The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus. Berkeley: University of California. (PDF)
  8. ^ Bruhn, Daniel; Lowe, John; Mortensen, David; Yu, Dominic (2015). Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Database Software. Software, UC Berkeley Dash. doi:10.6078/D1159Q
  9. ^ STEDT Publications

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