Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King 2006 CSLI
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Urdu is a New Indo-Aryan language which uses case markers to express differing semantic functions. The case marker ko marks accusative and dative. It is also used to express a few other spatial and temporal functions. We have studied a variety of semantic usages of ko and propose an unifying explantion of all the diverse usages. We assume that it originated as a spatial postposition from a Sanskrit locative. The non-spatial usages of ko can be explained in terms of extended meaning of its spatial origin, i.e. ko marks a location in a semantic field that is a spatial field by default, but can be thought as temporal or event field in a metaphorical or abstract way.
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