The Baxter-Sagart reconstruction of Old Chinese

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”.

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

New downloads (as of October 21, 2020):

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).