{"id":2420,"date":"2025-08-28T14:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:23:28","slug":"more-imperative-dominant-defectivity-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/more-imperative-dominant-defectivity-english\/","title":{"rendered":"More imperative-dominant defectivity in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan Malanoski adds the following to our list of imperative-dominant defective verbs in English:\u00a0<em>come<\/em>\u00a0V,\u00a0<em>go<\/em> <em>V<\/em>. These seem (to Aidan and I) to show a similar distribution to the ones discussed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/defectivity-english-more-observations\/\">the previous post<\/a>: imperatives are ok (<em>Come say hi! Go give your mom a kiss!<\/em>) as are infinitives (<em>She shouted for him to come<\/em> <em>greet me.<\/em>) and everything else is degraded.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan Malanoski adds the following to our list of imperative-dominant defective verbs in English:\u00a0come\u00a0V,\u00a0go 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/more-imperative-dominant-defectivity-english\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More imperative-dominant defectivity in English&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-defectivity","category-language","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}