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The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary

By Cook Richard S. , Lowe John B.

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Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Сино-тибетское язы

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Издатель: University of California, Berkeley, USAГод: 2000Количество страниц: 19The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT, [st‰t]) Project began inAugust 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: thepublication 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 inthis colossal endeavor should require the protracted concentration of hundreds of linguists oversuch a long period of time. In fact, when the many sources whence STEDT derives its data areconsidered, the amount of time required for the reconstruction of PST far exceeds these thirteenyears and the lives of STEDT's contributing researchers. The lexicographic task to which STEDTis committed is only the newest contribution in this field of linguistics which begins with theearliest inscriptions in the ST daughter languages.

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