Cognate object
In linguistics, a cognate object (or cognate accusative) is a verb's object that is etymologically related to the verb. More specifically, the verb is one that is ordinarily intransitive (lacking any object), and the cognate object is simply the verb's noun form. For example, in the sentence He slept a troubled sleep, sleep is the cognate object of the verb slept. Cognate objects exist in many languages, including various unrelated ones; for example,[1] they exist in Arabic, Chichewa, German, Ancient Greek,[2] Hebrew, Icelandic, Korean, Latin,[3] and Russian.
Examples
English
See also
- Pleonasm (the use of more words than necessary to express an idea)
- Polyptoton (a stylistic scheme in which words derived from the same root are repeated)
References
- ^ Linguist list
- ^ Herbert Weir Smyth. A Greek grammar for colleges. page 355, section 1563: cognate accusative
- ^ Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough. New Latin grammar for schools and colleges. p. 243, section 390: cognate accusative.