For one who has abandoned craving and is free from
grasping,
who is skilled in etymology and terms, knowing
the groupings and sequences of letters,
this is the final birth.
This one is called
the Great Being,
the Great Sage.
Dhammapada (24.19)
James A. Matisoff
The Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System: Toward an Etymological Thesaurus is now available from UC Press.
James A. Matisoff
The Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction is now available from UC Press.
The first set of Addenda and Corrigenda for this book are now available here.
James A. Matisoff
The English-Lahu Lexicon (long-awaited complement to Matisoff's Dictionary of Lahu) is now available from UC Press.
The STEDT Project publishes a Monograph Series. Volumes in the STEDT Monograph Series are now available for ORDER ONLINE.
Richard Cook
Number 9 in the STEDT Monograph Series is a high-resolution edition of《說文解字 ‧ 電子版》Shuō Wén Jiě Zì — Diànzǐ Bǎn: Digital Recension of the Eastern Hàn Chinese Grammaticon, by Richard S. Cook (Doctoral Dissertation, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Linguistics, 2003). This work, the first-ever reconstruction of a complete Shuō Wén (AD 121) Urtext, presents the results of more than a decade of effort directed at elucidating the major findings of the principal 清 Qīng Dynasty commentary edition (段玉裁 Duàn Yùcái, 1815). In four-volumes (2,400 pages), this monograph situates the 19th c. findings firmly in the context of traditional and modern Chinese lexicography, with complete mappings to important lexica, and Old and Middle Chinese readings. Volume 1 documents the recension and phonological findings; Volumes 2 & 3 contain the concordance data and source mappings; Volume 4 (now available for the first time) contains the complete reconstructed Shuō Wén Urtext typeset in Seal Script (vertical text, right-to-left). Each of the four volumes must be ordered separately.
ISBN 0-944613-48-9
2400 pages
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Kenneth VanBik
Volume 8 in the STEDT Monograph Series presents Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages, a revision of Kenneth VanBik’s 2006 doctoral dissertation (Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley). This book represents a high-water mark in our understanding of the history of the Kuki-Chin branch of Tibeto-Burman. Nearly 1400 reconstructed cognate sets are presented, at various taxonomic levels: Proto-Kuki-Chin, Proto-Central-Chin, Proto-Northern-Chin, and Proto-Maraic. Special attention is paid to the subgrouping of this highly ramified family, based on the patterns of shared phonological innovations which the various languages display.
ISBN 0-944613-47-0
626 pages
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Helga So-Hartmann
Volume 7 in the STEDT Monograph Series presents A Descriptive Grammar of Daai Chin, Helga So-Hartmann’s 2008 doctoral dissertation (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). This is the most detailed and sophisticated grammar of a Chin language to have appeared since Eugénie J.A. Henderson’s classic (1965) study of Tiddim (Northern Chin group). The Daai language is an important member of the Southern Chin group, with about 45,000 speakers. Chin State is in western Myanmar, and the Daai Chin people live in the interior of the Southern Chin Hills in about 160 villages spread out over the four townships Mindat, Kanpetlet, Paletwa and Matupi.)
ISBN 0-944613-46-2
392 pages
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Paul K. Benedict
Volume 6 in the STEDT Monograph Series presents a facsimile edition of the ground-breaking Kinship in Southeastern Asia (1941, doctoral dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University), by the late Paul K. Benedict (1912-1997). This expansive volume treats kinship terms in Tibeto-Burman (which it divides into Tibetan, Western Sub-Himalayan, Eastern Sub-Himalayan, Lepcha, Miri and northern Assam, Kachin, Nung, Burmese and Lolo, Konyak, Garo and Bodo, Mikir, Meithei, Mru, Kuki, Naga) on the one hand, and Karen and Chinese on the other. "The approach in the present work might be termed the 'direct method', in that each language or language-group is handled as a unit, along with the relevant ethnographic data, and an attempt is made to view the nomenclature as a functional entity with intra-relationships as well as extra-relationships. In this way a succession of patterns is presented rather than a series of disembodied etymologies or disjointed sets of sibling terms, grandparent terms, and the like. The comparative side is not lost sight of, however, and the writer does not shy at historical reconstruction. His approach is based, not on any metaphysic of kinship, but on practical expediency. He simply sees no other way of creating a complete picture of the culturo-linguistic situation with which he is faced. The linguistic material has been made especially full with the same end in mind. It must not be forgotten that kinship terms are, after all, linguistic elements, even though they are often handled more as if they were fish-traps or types of arrow release, and that linguistic coloring is all-important in shaping the semantic associations of any given term." (quoted from the author's Introduction, p. iv)
ISBN 0-944613-45-4
545 pages
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Richard S. Cook
The first and most enigmatic of the Chinese classics is the Book of Changes, and the reasoning behind its binary hexagram sequence remained an unsolved mystery for some 3,000 years (according to the tradition ascribing it to King Wen of Zhou, d. -11th c.). This Monograph resolves the classical enigma: Richard Cook provides a comprehensive analysis of the hexagram sequence, showing that its classification of binary sequences demonstrates knowledge of the convergence of certain linear recurrence sequences (LRS; Pingala -5th c.?, Fibonacci 1202) to division in extreme and mean ratio (DEMR, the “Golden Section” irrational; Pythagoras -6th c.?, Euclid -4th c.). It is shown that the complex hexagram sequence encapsulates a careful and ingenious demonstration of the LRS/DEMR relation, that this knowledge results from general combinatorial analysis, and is reflected in elements emphasized in ancient Chinese and Western mathematical traditions. This copiously illustrated 660-page volume presents a detailed introduction to the classical problem, an overview and in-depth derivation of the solution, an extensive terminological glossary, and computer source code formalizing all aspects of the derivations. The conclusion of this work situates the major findings in larger historical context.
ISBN 0-944613-44-6
660 pages
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David Bradley
Lisu is one of the most important and viable Loloish languages, with nearly a million speakers, but until recently comparative Loloish studies have been hampered by the lack of a comprehensive dictionary of the language. David Bradley, who has already done much to clarify the interrelationships among the Lolo-Burmese languages as a whole, has been working to fill this lexicographical lacuna for more than a decade. In 1994, he published a concise 257-page dictionary of Northern Lisu. The present work treats the Southern dialect. The front matter includes an informative introduction about the Lisu people and their dialectal subdivisions, and a brief sketch of Lisu syntax. The body of the 346-page Southern Lisu Dictionary is carefully arranged, with clear glosses for both the lemmata and the subentries, providing intriguing glimpses into Lisu culture.
ISBN 0-944613-43-8
xxxiv, 346 pages
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Ju Namkung, Editor
Contains phonological information on over 150 Tibeto-Burman languages and dialects, gathered from numerous published and unpublished sources. The monograph has a two-fold purpose. First, it will serve as a companion to forthcoming STEDT volumes, providing a key to the various transcription systems employed in the STEDT database. Second, it can stand on its own as a general reference tool which gathers in a single volume 270 treatments of Tibeto-Burman phonological systems, each comprising symbols and their phonetic values, interpretive notes, and sources. In addition, the monograph is indexed by language and dialect name, by subgroup and by STEDT source abbreviation, making it a convenient and invaluable reference for the Tibeto-Burman linguist.
ISBN 0-944613-28-4
xxviii, 507 pages
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James A. Matisoff, Editor
A substantially revised version of Matisoff's 1986 list of Tibeto-Burman languages, published in Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies (John McCoy and Timothy Light (Eds.), Leiden: E. J. Brill). The work includes 1,294 main entries with thousands of additional cross-references, ethnolinguistic details, and "allonyms" (Matisoff's term for the various referents used for languages and peoples). Also included are bibliographic citations and statistics relating the names in the work to the contents of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) project database, making the work a useful companion to the forthcoming Dictionary-Thesaurus.
ISBN 0-944613-26-8
xxx, 180 pages
$30.00 + shipping & handling
Randy J. LaPolla and John B. Lowe (Eds.)
Covers the first twenty-five International Conferences on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL), from the first held at Yale in 1968 to the 25th held at Berkeley in 1992. In addition to a full bibliography of all papers presented, it includes indexes by author, subject, title, and Chinese character. A chronological listing of papers by conference is also provided.
lxiv, 308 pages
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