William H. Baxter
| William H. Baxter | |||||||
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| Born |
March 3, 1949 New York City, New York, United States |
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| Nationality | American | ||||||
| Fields | Linguistics | ||||||
| Institutions | University of Michigan | ||||||
| Alma mater |
Amherst College (B.A.) Cornell University (M.A., Ph.D.) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Nicholas Bodman | ||||||
| Known for | Reconstruction of Old Chinese | ||||||
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| Chinese | 白一平 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Bái Yīpíng |
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. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1977 at Cornell University. In 1983 he joined the University of Michigan, where he is currently Professor of Linguistics and Asian Languages and Cultures.
Baxter's A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology 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. A reconstruction for nearly 5000 words has been published online. 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
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