Bill Baxter’s Home Page

A portrait of the lama 'Phags-pa, designer of an alphabet
for all the languages of the Mongol empire

I'm overhauling my web pages (slowly!) to give them a clearer structure. Comments are welcome.

Courses taught, Fall 2006

Department of Linguistics: “Deciphering Ancient Languages” (undergraduate)

LING 102.001 (First-Year Seminar in Humanities), course number 24884
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30 am – 10:00 am, 216 Dennison Hall

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures: “Sinological Tools and Methods” (graduate)

ASIAN 538, course number 26560
time and place to be arranged

My publications (click for list)

My Curriculum vitæ in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format

An Etymological Dictionary of Common Chinese Characters (preliminary draft of 28 October 2000): follow the link for details.

How hard is Chinese? Some answers to a frequently asked question...

Research in progress

(TEMPORARILY REMOVED FOR RENOVATION)

Links to useful and/or interesting resources

University of Michigan:Department of Asian Languages and Cultures | Department of Linguistics

This page was last updated Friday, August 25, 2006, at 12:28 PM.
If you have comments or corrections, please contact William Baxter (wbaxter “at” umich.edu).