More imperative-dominant defectivity in English

Aidan Malanoski adds the following to our list of imperative-dominant defective verbs in English: come V, go V. These seem (to Aidan and I) to show a similar distribution to the ones discussed in the previous post: imperatives are ok (Come say hi! Go give your mom a kiss!) as are infinitives (She shouted for him to come greet me.) and everything else is degraded.

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