Submitted by stedtadmin on Thu, 2016-08-25 09:46
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.
Submitted by dwbruhn on Wed, 2014-07-23 14:38
Submitted by dwbruhn on Wed, 2014-04-02 12:48
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
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Submitted by dwbruhn on Tue, 2012-12-11 17:05
The STEDT Publications page has been updated with downloadable pdf's. Check it out!
Submitted by stedtadmin on Tue, 2012-10-16 08:23
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:
Submitted by dwbruhn on Tue, 2012-07-24 17:14
Submitted by dwbruhn on Wed, 2012-07-18 17:47
Submitted by stedtadmin on Tue, 2012-04-03 14:35
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.
Submitted by dwbruhn on Thu, 2012-03-15 12:47
The STEDT Simple Search interface has now been updated to support searches on the form of an etymon or reflex. Check it out!
Submitted by dwbruhn on Wed, 2012-02-29 11:03
Submitted by dwbruhn on Thu, 2012-02-23 11:47
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:
Submitted by dwbruhn on Sat, 2012-02-18 23:00
Submitted by dwbruhn on Mon, 2011-12-26 12:53
The STEDT Simple Search interface has now been updated to support searches within a particular language group. Check it out!
Submitted by dwbruhn on Thu, 2011-12-15 19:03
Submitted by dbsolnit on Tue, 2011-08-30 14:58
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?
Submitted by dwbruhn on Thu, 2011-08-18 14:37
Submitted by stedtadmin on Sat, 2011-01-01 09:03
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
Submitted by stedtadmin on Sun, 2010-03-14 15:09
