I meant to explain that in my earlier message, but I guess I didn&#39;t.<div><br></div><div>The motion-verb type of pseudocoordination seems to encode manner in English. &quot;Run and catch the bus&quot; means &quot;catch the bus while running&quot;. It&#39;s hard to find an exact paraphrase, but that should give you the idea.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Secondly, it is possible that it means something specific in this context. For example, in Irish English, &quot;take and X&quot; means &quot;start to X&quot;. But I&#39;m not aware of any grammaticalized meanings with &#39;come&#39;.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Basically it won&#39;t have a significantly different meaning, but rather just emphasize the manner. Sometimes these constructions are said to indicated surprise or similar emotions. That&#39;s not consistent, but it may be the case here.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Daniel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Angus Grieve-Smith <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1204%26L%3DVAR-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D100472%26B%3D--e89a8ff1c37660b61904bce60f09%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

  
    
  
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        <div>I just checked with a friend here in southern/Appalachian
          Ohio, and she commonly said &quot;went and did&quot; as a kid (and
          again, maybe as an adult too; we tend to pretend we no longer
          do these things).  Interestingly, she&#39;s driven bonkers by the
          construction &quot;try and do it.&quot;  As for tense, for my mother
          &quot;come&quot; was her standard past tense form, so there was no
          inconsistent mix of tenses in her use of the construction.</div>
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        I&#39;m not surprised.  But I still don&#39;t know what it means. 
    What&#39;s the difference between &quot;And then Trayvon <b>come and said</b>
    the man was still behind him&quot; and &quot;And then Trayvon <b>said</b> the
    man was still behind him&quot;?
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