William H. Baxter

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William H. Baxter
Born (1949-03-03) March 3, 1949 (age 76)
New York City, New York, United States
Alma mater Amherst College (B.A.)
Cornell University (M.A., Ph.D.)
Known forReconstruction of Old Chinese
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics
Institutions University of Michigan
Doctoral advisor Nicholas Bodman
Chinese name
Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Bái Yīpíng
IPA [pǎɪ í.pʰǐŋ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization Baahk Yātpìhng
Jyutping baak6 jat1 ping4
IPA [pak̚˨ yɐt̚˥.pʰɪŋ˩]
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese baek 'jit-bjaeng
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014) /*bˤrak ʔi[t].m-breŋ/

William Hubbard Baxter III (born March 3, 1949) is an American linguist specializing in the history of the Chinese language and best known for his work on the reconstruction on Old Chinese.

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Biography

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

Baxter's A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology [2] is the standard reference for the reconstruction of Old Chinese phonology. 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] In 2016, Baxter and Sagart were awarded the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award by the Linguistic Society of America for their 2014 book Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction. [5]

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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.
  5. "Leonard Bloomfield Book Award Previous Holders" . Retrieved 8 March 2017.