Yea, my main issue is the term "emphasis." It just seems like a lazy choice of words, especially since the cognate acc. can function in several other ways. Has anyone written a thorough essay on cognate accusatives?
Jonathan Mohler On Jun 10, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Rev. Bryant J. Williams III wrote: > Dear Chris, > > I wonder if what is happening is confusion of grammatical terms with > interpretation. A Cognate Accusative is just that an Accusative having the > same root as the verb. PERIOD. The rest is interpretation as to whether or > not it is the Direct Object, etc. That is function. Now, lest hope I am not > confusing matters even more(?). :)))) > > Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
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