Alternation ‘cognate/kindred object’ (Uncoded)

Gothic is acknowledged to avoid cognate (i.e. etymologically related to the verbs that take them) and kindred (i.e. semantically similar to the verbs that take them) objects (Miller 2019: 109–110). However, these arguments are relatively well-represented in our sample, where we do find usually intransitive, monotransitive, and ditransitive verbs that allow for the insertion of cognate and kindred objects. These objects can occur in the accusative or in the dative case. Dative cognate objects are quite unusual in the framework of IE languages (Horrocks and Stavrou 2010).