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*''He danced a cheerful dance.'' (i.e., He danced, and his dance was cheerful.)
In some of these cases, the cognate object allows for a simpler construction; in others, it may simply be chosen for [[idiom]]atic or [[rhetoric]]al reasons. In general, the cognate object's modifiers are in some sense modifying the verb: for example, ''He slept a troubled sleep'' tells how he slept. Semantically, many of these verbs denote modes of nonverbal expression (laugh, smile) and bodily actions or motions (dance, walk, sleep), specifically including what Levin calls "waltz verbs," those which are [[Conversion %28linguistics%29#Verbification|zero-related]] (i.e., identical) to the names of dances. <ref>{{cite book
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