The Person Agreement System Of Wobzi Lavrung (Rgyalrongic, Tibeto‐Burman)

Abstract

Abstract This article offers a description of the person agreement system of Wobzi Lavrung, a Tibeto‐Burman language spoken in Sichuan, China. The Lavrung language is still imperfectly described, and the aim of this paper is to contribute to the documentation of one of its dialects. The analysis follows the terminology proposed in Dryer (1986), Haspelmath (2005), Zuñiga (2006), and Malchukov et al. (2010). We discuss the inflectional affixes, the empathy hierarchy and the different types of transitive constructions in the language. Furthermore, the system under analysis is compared to related languages such as Rgyalrong and Rta'u.