ABSTRACT
Object that is etymologically or semantically related to the verb on which it is dependent, e.g. to sleep the sleep of the simple, to die a cruel death. Cognate objects cannot normally be passivized: *A cruel death was died by him.
Object that is etymologically or semantically related to the verb on which it is dependent, e.g. to sleep the sleep of the simple, to die a cruel death. Cognate objects cannot normally be passivized: *A cruel death was died by him.