William H. Baxter

William H. Baxter
Born (1949-03-03) March 3, 1949
New York City, New York, United States
Nationality American
Fields Linguistics
Institutions University of Michigan
Alma mater Amherst College (B.A.)
Cornell University (M.A., Ph.D.)
Doctoral advisor Nicholas Bodman
Known for Reconstruction of Old Chinese
Chinese name
Chinese 白一平

William H. Baxter (born March 3, 1949) is a professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. His specialty is the history of the Chinese language. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1977 at Cornell University.[1]

Baxter's A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology[2] is the standard reference for the reconstruction of Old Chinese, i.e. the language of the pre-Qin period. Together with Laurent Sagart at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris he has produced an improved reconstruction of the pronunciation, vocabulary, and morphology of Old Chinese.[3] A reconstruction for nearly 5000 words has been published online.[4]

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References

  1. Curriculum Vitae, William H. Baxter.
  2. Baxter, William H. (1992), A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-012324-1.
  3. Baxter, William; Sagart, Laurent (2014). Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-994537-5.
  4. Baxter, William H.; Sagart, Lauent. "The Baxter-Sagart reconstruction of Old Chinese (version 1.1, 20 September 2014)". Retrieved 2015-02-04.

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