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18 - Approaches to Motion Event Typology

from Part II - Typology of Grammatical Categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2017

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Eric Pederson
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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology , pp. 574 - 598
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