William H. Baxter | |||||||||||||
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| Born | March 3, 1949 New York City, New York, United States | ||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Amherst College (B.A.) Cornell University (M.A., Ph.D.) | ||||||||||||
| Known for | Reconstruction of Old Chinese | ||||||||||||
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| Fields | Linguistics | ||||||||||||
| Institutions | University of Michigan | ||||||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Nicholas Bodman | ||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 白一平 | ||||||||||||
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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.