The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary

Издатель: University of California, Berkeley, USA
Год: 2000
Количество страниц: 19The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT, [st‰t]) Project began in
August 1987 at the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Professor James A.
Matisoff. More than thirteen years later the concrete goal of the project remains the same: the
publication of an etymological dictionary of the Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST) ancestor language.
Scientific advances do not always happen over night, and so it may be no surprise that success in
this colossal endeavor should require the protracted concentration of hundreds of linguists over
such a long period of time. In fact, when the many sources whence STEDT derives its data are
considered, the amount of time required for the reconstruction of PST far exceeds these thirteen
years and the lives of STEDT's contributing researchers. The lexicographic task to which STEDT
is committed is only the newest contribution in this field of linguistics which begins with the
earliest inscriptions in the ST daughter languages.