को: Experiencer ~> Recipient
Used for targets of intransitive verbs of cognition, feeling, sensation, and experience.
Note: लगना, in its capacity as an intransitive verb meaning "to feel", can be used for both Experiencer-type events as well as involuntary events (constituting Theme), like getting hurt (चोट लगना).
This includes चाहिए in the sense of wanting.
Used for targets of causative verbs of sensation, cognition, etc. like दिखाना, सुनाना.
Narasimhan, 1998 discusses the various functions of the dative, and splits off this kind of Experiencer from Goal and Theme. ↩
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adposition | को |
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construal | Experiencer↝Recipient |