Announcements (Archive)

This is an archive of all the announcements previously posted to the STEDT web site.

Initial release of STEDT "digital assets"

At long last, the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus is being published and the database and software associated with the project is being made available.

This announcement is for an early, experimental, "pre-release" of the deliverables -- we are hoping that some highly-motivated individuals will step forward to do some initial checking and experimentation before a wider release.

Pyu excerpt from Sino-Tibetan Linguistics

STEDT is pleased to make available a pdf scan of Appendix VI from Volume 12:2 of Shafer & Benedict's "Sino-Tibetan Linguistics", regarding Pyu. See the Publications page for more information.

ICSTLL 47

47th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics

Yunnan Normal University (YNNU), Kunming, Yunnan, China, 17 - 19 October 2014

Conference Website

Third Circular (pdf)  |  Supplementary Notice

Fee-Waiver Application (docx)

Additional Conferences

Information courtesy of Prof. David Bradley

Heritage Maintenance for Endangered Languages in Yunnan, China (4)
Yuxi Normal University, 20 - 21 October 2014

Yuxi is less than one hour south of Chenggong, the location of ICSTLL 47. Transportation will be provided from Chenggong to Yuxi for this workshop.

More information here: HMELYC4 announcement

International Workshop on the Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment (3)
Yunnan Nationalities University, Chenggong campus, 22 - 23 October 2014

Transportation for participants from Yuxi to Chenggong and from Chenggong to Kunming airport will be provided.

More information here: SoLE-3 announcement

STEDT Workshop Handout

The handout for the upcoming STEDT Workshop at ICSTLL46 is available here: http://stedt.berkeley.edu/icstll46/STEDT_Cheat_Sheet.pdf

ICSTLL 46 - 4th Circular

The fourth circular for ICSTLL 46 has been posted! See here:

http://sites.dartmouth.edu/icstll46/home/fourth-circular-july-2013/

ICSTLL46 - 3rd Circular

The third circular for ICSTLL 46 has been posted! See here:

http://sites.dartmouth.edu/icstll46/home/third-circular-may-2013/

ICSTLL 46 - 2nd Circular

The second circular for ICSTLL 46 has been posted! See here:

http://sites.dartmouth.edu/icstll46/home/second-circular-march-2013/

ICSTLL 46

46th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 7 - 10 August 2013

Dec 2012: First Circular and Call for Papers

Mar 2013: Second Circular and Call for Papers

May 2013: Third Circular

Most publications now available for free download

The STEDT Publications page has been updated with downloadable pdf's. Check it out!

Documentation

Documentation for the STEDT database includes:

ICSTLL 45 Program

The ICSTLL 45 program is currently available:

http://portal.cohass.ntu.edu.sg/ICSTLL45/programme.asp

Workshop Update

Attention ICSTLL Attendees:

There is still space at the STEDT Workshop at ICSTLL 45!

The workshop will be held from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM on Thursday, October 25. Location to be announced. We would like to remind potential participants that all-day attendance is not required! There will be two identical sessions, a morning session from 9:30 to 12:30 and an afternoon session from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. This will make it feasible for people to attend multiple workshops that day.

The schedule of each session is as follows:

New Data: Tangkhulic, etc.

Once again, thanks to David Mortensen, the STEDT database now contains thousands of forms from his fieldwork on the Tangkhulic languages, as well as much of the data from Brown's 1837 work, Comparison of Indo-Chinese Languages.

New Data: Sorbung

Courtesy of David Mortensen, the STEDT database now contains 770 forms from Sorbung, a previously-undocumented language of Manipur!

Workshop Overview

Organizer: John B. Lowe, with grateful acknowledgment of the assistance of STEDT staff.

To facilitate the use of the STEDT Database and to gather feedback on the web interface, an informal workshop, focused on "hands-on" practice with the database, will be offered at ICSTLL 45 in Singapore on October 25, 2012.

Interface Update: Search by form

The STEDT Simple Search interface has now been updated to support searches on the form of an etymon or reflex. Check it out!

New Data: Phula languages

The STEDT database now contains 5,925 lexical items from the Phula languages, courtesy of Jamin Pelkey!

Ao-llofams

When encountering unexplained variation in a particular language or subgroup, reconstructed PTB allofams (word families) are a vital tool for determining whether the origin of that variation can be located as far back as PTB.

The Ao languages of Nagaland (Mongsen & Chungli), for example, show intra- and inter-lingual variants of 'seven(ty)' that cannot be explained by regular sound change from a single Proto-Ao form. As it turns out, this variation can be understood as the preservation of two allofams of PTB *s-ni-s SEVEN:

ICSTLL 45 CFP

45th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 26 - 28 October 2012

20 Feb 2012: First Circular and Call for Papers

15 Apr 2012: Second Circular and Call for Papers

20 Aug 2012: Third Circular

Interface Update: Search by language group

The STEDT Simple Search interface has now been updated to support searches within a particular language group. Check it out!

New Data: Xiangjiao Laze

Thanks again to the generosity of Alexis Michaud, the STEDT database now contains 1,534 lexical items from Xiangjiao Laze.

Why Sino-Tibetan?

A correspondent asks:

Why is it that some scholars ... consider Chinese and Tibetan part of the same linguistic family even though Chinese is tonal and Tibetan non-tonal; Chinese is written using Chinese characters and Tibetan is written with a Sanskritic alphabet; Chinese uses sentence structures similar to English and Tibetan uses sentence structures similar to Sanskritic languages; and Chinese uses sentence conjugation instead of verb conjugation and Tibetan uses verb conjugation similar to that of the other Sanskritic languages?

New Data: Yongning Na

Thanks to the generosity of Alexis Michaud, the STEDT database now contains 2,033 lexical items from Yongning Na.

STEDT Database Now Online!

We are pleased to announce that the database is now available for public use via the world wide web. The database contains (as of this announcement) 432,976 lexical items from 566 languages, protolanguages, and dialects of the Sino-Tibetan linguistic area.

An initial version of the web interface may be found here: http://stedt.berkeley.edu/search

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