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William H. Baxter

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William H. Baxter
Born(1949-03-03)March 3, 1949(age 75)
New York City, New York,United States
Alma materAmherst College(B.A.)
Cornell University(M.A., Ph.D.)
Known forReconstruction ofOld Chinese
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
Doctoral advisorNicholas Bodman
Chinese name
ChineseBạch một bình

William Hubbard Baxter III(born March 3, 1949) is an Americanlinguistspecializing in the history of theChinese languageand best known forhis work on the reconstructiononOld Chinese.

Biography[edit]

Baxter earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1977 atCornell University.In 1983 he joined theUniversity of Michigan,[1]where he is currently Professor of Linguistics and Asian Languages and Cultures.

Baxter'sA Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology[2]is the standard reference for the reconstruction ofOld Chinese phonology.Together withLaurent Sagartat theCentre National de la Recherche Scientifiquein 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]In 2016, Baxter and Sagart were awarded theLeonard Bloomfield Book Awardby theLinguistic Society of Americafor their 2014 bookOld Chinese: A New Reconstruction.[5]

Publications[edit]

  • Baxter, William; Sagart, Laurent (2014).Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction.Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-994537-5.
  • Sagart, Laurent, and William H. Baxter (2012). Reconstructing the *s- prefix in Old Chinese. Language and Linguistics 13: 29–59.
  • Shā Jiā’ěr sa thêm ngươi [Laurent Sagart] and Bái Yīpíng bạch một bình [William H. Baxter] (2010). Shànggǔ Hànyǔ de N- hé m- qiánzhuì thượng cổ Hán ngữ N- cùng m- tiền tố. Hàn-Zàng yǔ xuébào hán tàng ngữ học báo [Journal of Sino-Tibetan Linguistics] 4: 62–69.
  • Bái Yīpíng bạch một bình [William H. Baxter] (2010). "'Yì', 'shì' 'shè' děng zì de gòunǐ hé zhōnggǔ sy- (shūmǔ = shěnsān) de láiyuán" “Nghệ”, “Thế”, “Thiết” chờ tự cấu nghĩ cùng trung cổ sy- ( thư mẫu = thẩm tam ) nơi phát ra. Jiǎnbó giản bạch 5: 161–178.
  • Sagart, Laurent, and William H. Baxter (2009). Reconstructing Old Chinese uvulars in the Baxter–Sagart system (version 0.99). Cahiers de linguistique Asie orientale 38: 221–244.
  • Baxter, William W. (2006). "Mandarin dialect phylogeny".Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale.35:71–114.doi:10.3406/clao.2006.1748.
  • Baxter, William W. (2006). "Eulogy: Sergej Anatol′evič Starostin, March 24, 1953 – September 30, 2005".Journal of Chinese Linguistics.34(1): 164–166.
  • Baxter, William H. (2002). "Where does the 'Comparative Method' come from?". In Fabrice Cavoto (ed.).The linguist's linguist: a collection of papers in honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer.Munich: LINCOM EUROPA. pp. 33–52.
  • (2000) (with Alexis Manaster Ramer) Beyond lumping and splitting: probabilistic issues in historical linguistics. In Time depth in historical linguistics, ed. by Colin Renfrew, April McMahon & Larry Trask, 167–188. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
  • Baxter, William W. (2000). "Did Proto-Mandarin exist?".Journal of Chinese Linguistics.28:100–115.
  • (1999) "Reconstructing Proto-'Mandarin' retroflex initials". InIssues in Chinese dialect description and classification(Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monographs, 15), ed. by Richard VanNess Simmons, 1–35. Berkeley: Project on Linguistic Analysis.
  • (1999) Eulogy: Nicholas C. Bodman (1913–1997). Journal of Chinese Linguistics 27: 190–191.
  • (1998) Response to Oswalt and Ringe. In Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence, ed. by Joseph C. Salmons and Brian D. Joseph, 217–236. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • (1998) Situating the language of the Lao-tzu: the probable date of the Tao-te-ching. In Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, ed. by Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, 231–253. Albany: State University Press of New York, 1998.
  • (1997) (with Laurent Sagart) Word formation in Old Chinese. In New approaches to Chinese word formation, ed. by Jerome Packard, 35–76. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • (1996) Review (with Alexis Manaster Ramer) of Donald A. Ringe, Jr., On calculating the factor of chance in language comparison (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1992), Diachronica 13: 371–384.
  • (1995) "'A stronger affinity… than could have been produced by accident': a probabilistic comparison of Old Chinese and Tibeto-Burman". InThe Ancestry of the Chinese Language(Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monographs, 8), ed. byWilliam S-Y. Wang,1–39. Berkeley: Project on Linguistic Analysis.
  • (1995) "Pre-Qièyùn distinctions in the Mǐn dialects". In Papers from the First International Symposium on Languages in Taiwan (Dì 1 jiè Táiwān yǔyán guójì yántǎo huì lùnwén xuǎnjí lần thứ nhất Đài Loan ngôn ngữ quốc tế hội thảo luận văn tuyển tập ) ed. by Ts’ao Feng-fu tào phùng phủ and Ts’ai Mei-hui Thái mỹ tuệ, 393–406. Taipei: Crane Publishing.
  • (1994) Guānyú Shànggǔyīn de sìge jiǎshè về thượng cổ âm bốn cái giả thiết (Four hypotheses on Old Chinese phonology). In Zhōngguó jìngnèi yǔyán jì yǔyánxué Trung Quốc cảnh nội ngôn ngữ ký ngôn ngữ học (Chinese languages and linguistics), vol. 2: Lìshǐ yǔyánxué lịch sử ngôn ngữ học (Historical linguistics), ed. by Li Jen-kuei Lý nhâm quý, Huang Chu-ren hoàng cư nhân, and T’ang Chih-chen canh chí thật, 41–60. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica.
  • (1994) Reply to Pulleyblank. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 22: 139–160
  • (1994) Some phonological correspondences between Chinese and Tibeto-Burman. In Current issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, ed. by Hajime Kitamura, Tatsuo Nishida, and Yasuhiko Nagano, 25–35. Osaka: The Organizing Committee, The 26th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
  • (1993) Review of Johanna Nichols, Linguistic diversity in space and time (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), Science 259: 1927–8 (26 March 1993).
  • (1993) Pre-Qieyun distinctions in the Min dialects. First International Symposium on Languages in Taiwan, Taipei.
  • (1992) A handbook of Old Chinese phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992.
  • (1991) Zhōu and Hàn phonology in the Shījīng. In Studies in the historical phonology of Asian languages (Current issues in linguistic theory, 77), ed. by William G. Boltz and Michael C. Shapiro, 1–34. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • (1991) On the hypothesis of a genetic connection between the Sino-Tibetan languages and the Yeniseian and North-Caucasian languages’ (annotated translation of Sergei Starostin’s ‘Gipoteza o genetičeskix svjazjax sinotibetskix jazykov s enisejskimi i severno-kavkazskimi jazykami’). In Dene-Sino-Caucasian languages: materials from the First International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory, Ann Arbor, 8–12 November 1988, edited by Vitaly Shevoroshkin. Bochum: Brockmeyer.
  • (1989) Review of Marie-Claude Paris, Problèmes de syntaxe et de sémantique en linguistique chinoise, Mémoires de l’Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, vol. 20 (Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 1981). Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 24: 111–118
  • (1987) Review of E. G. Pulleyblank, Middle Chinese: a study in historical phonology (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984). Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 47.635–656.
  • (1986) Old Chinese *-u and *-iw in the Shi-jing. In Contributions to Sino-Tibetan studies (Cornell linguistic contributions, 5), ed. by John McCoy and Timothy Light, 258–282. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
  • (1986) Chinese and Japanese CAI at the University of Michigan. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 21: 19–26.
  • (1985) Tibeto-Burman cognates of Old Chinese *-ij and *-ɨj. In Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area: the state of the art—papers presented to Paul K. Benedict for his 71st birthday (Pacific linguistics, series C, no. 87), ed. by Graham Thurgood, James A. Matisoff, and David Bradley, 242–263. Canberra: The Australian National University.
  • (1985) Language and language policy in Singapore. Social Education 49: 116–117 (1985).
  • (1985) Review of W. South Coblin, A handbook of Eastern Han sound glosses (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1983). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 48.170–171.
  • (1984) Formal semantics of a fragment of Chinese. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 19: 37–52.
  • (1983) A look at the history of Chinese color terminology. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 18(2): 1–25.
  • (1983) Shànggǔ Hànyǔ *sr- de fāzhǎn thượng cổ Hán ngữ *sr- phát triển ’ (The development of Old Chinese *sr–). Yǔyán Yánjiū ngôn ngữ nghiên cứu (Wǔhàn) 4: 22–26.
  • (1982) Review of Paul Fu-Mien Yang, Chinese dialectology: a selected and classified bibliography (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1981). Journal of Asian Studies 41: 158–159.
  • (1982) Some proposals on Old Chinese phonology. In Contributions in historical linguistics: issues and materials (Cornell linguistic contributions, 3), ed. by Frans van Coetsem and Linda R. Waugh, 1–33. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^Curriculum Vitae[dead link],William H. Baxter.
  2. ^Baxter, William H. (1992),A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology,Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,ISBN978-3-11-012324-1.
  3. ^Baxter, William; Sagart, Laurent (2014).Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction.Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-994537-5.
  4. ^Baxter, William H.; Sagart, Lauent."The Baxter–Sagart reconstruction of Old Chinese (version 1.1, 20 September 2014)".Retrieved2015-02-04.
  5. ^"Leonard Bloomfield Book Award Previous Holders".Retrieved8 March2017.

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