Lizu (Ersu)

Lizu is a little-studied Tibeto-Burman language spoken by ca. 7,000 people in Sichuan Province, China. This grammatical sketch is based on first-hand fieldwork data on the Lizu variety spoken Muli County. Brief as it may be, this sketch is the first comprehensive description of Lizu covering the basic phonological, morphological, and syntatic structures. In view of the scarcity of published Lizu data, the description provides numerous example sentences, taken from natural narrative texts, to illustrate the most salient points of Lizu grammar