The baxter sagart reconstruction of old chinese version 11 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 . Old chinese is the language of the earliest chinese classical texts 1st millennium bce and the ancestor of later varieties of chinese including all modern chinese dialects william baxter and laurent sagarts new reconstruction of old chinese moves beyond earlier reconstructions by taking into account important new evidence that has recently . Old chinese is the language of the earliest chinese classical texts 1st millennium bce and the ancestor of later varieties of chinese including all modern chinese dialects william baxter and laurent sagarts new reconstruction of old chinese moves beyond earlier reconstructions by taking into account important new evidence that has recently . The novel is a masterwork of chinese fiction and we celebrate the completion of his translation andrew lo soas university of london william h baxter and laurent sagart old chinese a new reconstruction x 448 pp oxford oxford university press 2014 gbp50. This book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology morphology and lexicon of old chinese the first sino tibetan language to be reduced to writing it is the language of the earliest chinese classical texts 1st millennium bce and the ancestor of later varieties of chinese including all modern chinese dialects although the reconstruction has its basis in earlier