Re: ergative/accusative

> As I recall, there was some Burman language -- it may have been Lolo or Lahu
> or Lisu -- mentioned in "Subject and Topic" which, in transitive clauses,
> marked no distinction between Agent and Patient.  Unfortunately on-line
> references backing this up are hard to find (at least, hard for _me_, right
> _now_); and I have returned the copy of Li's et al.'s "Subject and Topic"
> which I had borrowed.
>
I have a pdf about Lisu somewhere, or at least I had one. I'll try to
find it for you all... unfortunately the hard drive on this computer
failed and thus the copy here was lost, but I think I've got it on the
computer in my room also.

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