Review of a dictionary of the Northern dialect of Lisu (China and Southeast Asia)

Abstract

This review has its genesis in the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) project currently underway under the direction of James Matisoff at UC Berkeley. The project continues to add new source materials on Tibeto-Burman languages to its burgeoning database of lexical items. When David Bradley, of La Trobe University, Melbourne, graciously sent the STEDT project a copy of his newly-published dictionary, as well as the original computer files, it fell to me to prepare the data for inclusion in the STEDT database.