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from one sub-domain of motion to another (see also Lamarre 2003), and thus the typology
of motion expressions is sub-domain-specific; and (iii) motivating forces and blocking forces, furthermore, co-exist
diachronically for the typological evolution of motion encoding due to the idiosyncrasy of the morphosyntactic system.
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