William H. Baxter

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William Hubbard Baxter III. (born March 3, 1949 in New York City ) is an American linguist who specializes in the history of the Chinese language , especially the reconstruction of Old Chinese  . He received his PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University in 1977 . In 1983 he accepted a post at the University of Michigan , where he is currently Professor of Linguistics and Asian Languages ​​and Cultures.

Baxter's Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology is the standard work for the reconstruction of the phonology of Old Chinese. In the book, he and Laurent Sagart from the Center national de la recherche scientifique in Paris present an improved reconstruction of the pronunciation, vocabulary and morphology of Old Chinese. Reconstructions of nearly five thousand words have been published on the Internet. In 2016, Baxter and Sagart received the Leonard Bloomfield Book Prize from the Linguistic Society of America for their book Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction .

Works

  • William Baxter, Laurent Sagart: Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction . Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-994537-5 .
  • Laurent Sagart, William Baxter (2012). Reconstructing the * s- prefix in Old Chinese. Language and Linguistics 13. 29-59.
  • Shā Jiā'ěr 沙加尔 [Laurent Sagart], Bái Yīpíng 白一平 [William H. Baxter] (2010). Shànggǔ Hànyǔ de N- hé m- qiánzhuì 上古 汉语 的 N- 和 m- 前缀. Hàn-Zàngyǔ xuébào《汉 藏语 学报》 [Journal of Sino-Tibetan Linguistics] 4. 62–69.
  • Bái Yīpíng 白一平 [William H. Baxter] (2010). "'Yì', 'shì' 'shè' děng zì de gòunǐ hé zhōnggǔ sy- (shūmǔ = shěnsān) de láiyuán" “埶”, “勢”, “設” 等 字 的 構 擬 和 中古 sy- （書 母 =審 三） 的 來源. Jiǎnbó 簡 帛 5. 161–178.
  • Laurent Sagart, William Baxter (2009). Reconstructing Old Chinese uvulars in the Baxter-Sagart system (version 0.99). Cahiers de linguistique Asie orientale 38, 221-244.
  • William W. Baxter: Mandarin dialect phylogeny . In: Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale . 35, 2006, pp. 71-114.
  • William W. Baxter: Eulogy: Sergei Starostin Anatol'evič, March 24, 1953 - September 30, 2005 . In: Journal of Chinese Linguistics . 34, No. 1, 2006, pp. 164-166.
  • William H. Baxter: Where does the 'Comparative Method' come from? . In: Fabrice Cavoto (Ed.): The linguist's linguist: a collection of papers in honor of Alexis Manaster Ramer . LINCOM EUROPA, Munich 2002, 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.
  • William W. Baxter: Did Proto-Mandarin Exist? . In: Journal of Chinese Linguistics . 28, 2000, pp. 100-115.
  • (1999) "Reconstructing Proto-'Mandarin 'retroflex initials". In Issues 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 Rings. In Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence , ed. By Joseph C. Salmons and Brian D. Joseph, 217-236. Amsterdam: Benjamin.
  • (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) by Donald A. Rings, 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". In The Ancestry of the Chinese Language (Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monographs, 8), ed. By William 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《第一 屆 臺灣 語言 國際 研討會 論文 選集》) ed. from Ts'ao Feng-fu 曹逢甫 and Ts'ai Mei-hui 蔡美慧, 393–406. Taipei: Crane Publishing.
  • (1994) Guānyú Shànggǔyīn de sìge jiǎshè 關於 上古音 的 四個 假設 (Four hypotheses on Old Chinese phonology). In Zhōngguó jìngnèi yǔyán jì yǔyánxué《中國 境內 語言 暨 語言學》 (Chinese languages ​​and linguistics), vol. 2: Lìshǐ yǔyánxué 歷史 語言學 (Historical linguistics), ed. by Li Jen-kuei 李 壬癸, Huang Chu-ren 黃居仁 and T'ang Chih-chen 湯志 真, 41–60. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica.
  • (1994) Reply to Pulley Blank. 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 by Johanna Nichols, Linguistic diversity in space and time (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), Science 259: 1927-8 (March 26, 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 Benjamin.
  • (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 EG 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: EJ 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 February 18, 1-25.
  • (1983) Shànggǔ Hànyǔ * sr- de fāzhǎn 上古 汉语 * sr- 的 发展 '(The development of Old Chinese * sr–). Yǔyán Yánjiū《语言 研究》 (Wǔhàn) 4.22–26.
  • (1982) Review by 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: EJ Brill.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Curriculum Vitae , William H. Baxter.
  2. ^ A handbook of Old Chinese Phonology . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992.
  3. ↑ Christoph Harbsmeier : Irrefutable Conjectures. In: Monumenta Serica 64.2 (December 2016) pp. 445–504 (important review).
  4. ^ William Baxter, Laurent Sagart: Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction . Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-994537-5 .
  5. ↑ William H. Baxter, Lauent Sagart: The Baxter Sagart reconstruction of Old Chinese (Version 1.1, 20 September 2014) . Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  6. ^ Leonard Bloomfield Book Award Previous Holders .

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personal data
SURNAME Baxter, William H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baxter III, William Hubbard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City