Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
wbaxter@umich.eduOffice Information:
202 S. Thayer, Suite 6111, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
phone: 734.763.3704
Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; LRCCS Emeriti
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1977
Highlighted Work and Publications
The prefixes *N- and *m- in Old Chinese
Laurent Sagart, William Baxter
Name of Periodical: Journal of Sino-Tibetan Languages, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Volume Number: 4
Year of Publication: 2010
Page Numbers: 62-9
Notes, Comments, Reviews:
This journal article is written in Chinese.
The reconstruction of the words 埶 yì, 勢 shì, and 設 shè, and the origin of the Middle Chinese initial sy- [“埶”、“勢”、“設”等字的構擬和中古 sy-（書母＝審三）的來源]
William Baxter
“埶”、“勢”、“設”等字的構擬和中古 sy-（書母＝審三）的來源 [The
reconstruction of the words 埶 yì, 勢 shì, and 設 shè, and the origin of the
Middle Chinese initial sy-]. Jiǎnbó 《簡帛》(Wǔhàn) 5.161–178.
Name of Periodical: Jiǎnbó 《簡帛》
Issue Number: 5
Year of Publication: 2010
Page Numbers: 161–178
Reconstructing Old Chinese uvulars in the Baxter-Sagart system (Version 0.99)
Laurent Sagart, William Baxter
Name of Periodical: Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale
Volume Number: 38
Year of Publication: 2009
Page Numbers: 221-244
Mandarin dialect phylogeny
William Baxter
Name of Periodical: Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale
Volume Number: 35
Year of Publication: 2006
Page Numbers: 71-114
A Handbook of Old Chinese phonology
William Baxter
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Year of Publication: 1992
Location: Berlin
# of Pages: 922
Old Chinese: A new reconstruction
William Baxter, Laurent Sagart
This book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of Old Chinese, the first Sino-Tibetan language to be reduced to writing. Old Chinese is the language of the earliest Chinese classical texts (1st millennium BCE) and the ancestor of later varieties of Chinese, including all modern Chinese dialects. William Baxter and Laurent Sagart's new reconstruction of Old Chinese moves beyond earlier reconstructions by taking into account important new evidence that has recently become available: better documentation of Chinese dialects that preserve ...
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