The Baxter-Sagart reconstruction of Old Chinese

(Version 1.1, 20 September 2014)

(See new downloads below, added October 21, 2020.)

This page by William H. Baxter and Laurent Sagart provides supplementary materials to accompany our book Old Chinese: a new reconstruction.Although the page is still under construction, you can now download .pdf files with almost 5000 reconstructed items sorted in various ways (see Downloads below)

NEW: a list of errata, and a link to our response to Axel Schuessler’s review of our book, are available under "New downloads" below.

Baxter, William H., and Laurent Sagart. 2014. Old Chinese: a new reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press.

More information is available at

http://global.oup.com/academic/product/old-chinese-9780199945375

Downloads

New downloads (as of October 21, 2020):

  1. For a list of errata and corrections for Old Chinese: a new reconstruction, as an Excel file (.xlsx), click here (or right-click and "save as" to download the file).

  2. For the same list of errata and corrections as a pdf file, click here (or right-click and "save as" to download the file).

  3. For a pre-publication version of our response to Axel Schuessler’s 2015 review of our book in Diachronica (32:4, 571–598) click here (or right-click and "save as" to download the file). (The published version of our response is in Diachronica 34:4 (2017), 559–576.)

Old Chinese reconstructions

  1. For a list (in .pdf format) of almost 5000 reconstructed Old Chinese items, sorted by Grammata Serica Recensa number, click here (or right-click and "save as" to download the file).

  2. For a list (in .pdf format) of almost 5000 reconstructed Old Chinese items, sorted by pinyin alphabetical order, click here (or right-click and "save as" to download the file).

  3. For a list (in .pdf format) of almost 5000 reconstructed Old Chinese items, sorted by radical and stroke number, click here (or right-click and "save as" to download the file).

  4. For a list (in .xlsx format) of almost 5000 reconstructed Old Chinese items, click here (or right-click and "save as" to download the file).

The files on this page (related to Baxter & Sagart 2014: Old Chinese: a new reconstruction, New York, Oxford University Press) by William H. Baxter and Laurent Sagart are licensed under CC BY 4.0


 

To appear soon:

  • additional resources and updates

This page last updated on November 16, 2020.

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