The most up to date reconstruction of old chinese available draws on important newly available evidence better documentation of chinese dialects that preserve archaic features better documentation of languages with very early loanwords from chinese and a flood of chinese manuscripts from the first millennium bce recently excavated or discovered this book int. Old chinese a new reconstruction by william h sagart laurent baxter isbn 13 9780199945375 isbn 10 0199945373 hardcover new york oxford university press 2014 isbn 13 978 0199945375. 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 . Buy the hardcover book old chinese a new reconstruction by william h baxter at indigoca canadas largest bookstore free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders 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 old chinese is the language of the earliest chinese . Abebookscom old chinese a new reconstruction 9780199945375 by baxter william h sagart laurent and a great selection of similar new used and collectible books available now at great prices