William H Baxter
Biographic Data
| ID | 8762987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William H Baxter |
| GIVEN NAMES | William H |
| FAMILY NAME | Baxter |
| SIGNATURE | BAXTER W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Response to Ho Dah-an
Ho Dah-an’s 2016 review of our book Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction (2014) contains little discussion of the book’s main themes or proposals: he focuses instead on “errors” which, according to him, “reflect the outdated concepts of the authors and the insufficiency of their basic training.” In this response to Ho’s review, we consider his discussion of these “errors.” On two points (discussed below), he has actually found errors (a faulty inter…
Old Chinese reconstruction
International audience
Old Chinese
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. It 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. Although the reconstruction has its basis in earlier research, it moves beyond earlier reconstructions by taking i…
Old Chinese. A New Reconstruction, 2014
Reconstructing Old Chinese uvulars in the Baxter-Sagart system (Version 0.99)
This paper discusses the reconstruction of uvular and labio-uvular stops in Old Chinese, originally proposed by Pan Wuyun. The following two improvements are proposed: (1) the Old Chinese non labialized voiced uvular stop evolved to Middle Chinese y- (???) rather than hj- (???) in Pan's theory (which implies that Middle Chinese y- has two sources in Old Chinese: *1- and *G-); (2) uvulars and labio-uvulars evolve to MC velars when preceded by a mi…
Word formation in Old Chinese
A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology
Middle Chinese
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Middle Chinese
A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology
Word formation in Old Chinese
Reconstructing Old Chinese uvulars in the Baxter-Sagart system (Version 0.99)
This paper discusses the reconstruction of uvular and labio-uvular stops in Old Chinese, originally proposed by Pan Wuyun. The following two improvements are proposed: (1) the Old Chinese non labialized voiced uvular stop evolved to Middle Chinese y- (???) rather than hj- (???) in Pan's theory (which implies that Middle Chinese y- has two sources in Old Chinese: *1- and *G-); (2) uvulars and labio-uvulars evolve to MC velars when preceded by a mi…
Old Chinese. A New Reconstruction, 2014
Old Chinese
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. It 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. Although the reconstruction has its basis in earlier research, it moves beyond earlier reconstructions by taking i…
Old Chinese reconstruction
International audience
Response to Ho Dah-an
Ho Dah-an’s 2016 review of our book Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction (2014) contains little discussion of the book’s main themes or proposals: he focuses instead on “errors” which, according to him, “reflect the outdated concepts of the authors and the insufficiency of their basic training.” In this response to Ho’s review, we consider his discussion of these “errors.” On two points (discussed below), he has actually found errors (a faulty inter…
History (8 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Phonology (3 works) · Chinese language (2 works) · Linguistics and Cultural Studies (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Art (1 work)