Go and find him!

[prettydragoon]

Rireinutire

ta yekiri hamu reteka':
ta ye-kiri ha-mu rete-ka-'
2S.NOM go-GER 3RS-ACC find-PRS-IMP
Go and find her!

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Proto-Areyattan

• Syu, ɣa·tə́pyu!
  sı·u ɣa=tə́pı·u
  go·IMP 3SG.OBL=seek·IMP
  Go and find him!

Areyatta

In Areyatta, sı ‘go’ ceased being an independent morpheme; it has been suffixed on motion verbs and its subjunctive sı took the role as the new imperative so motion verbs nowadays don’t have an imperative form.
As sı wasn’t a verb anymore, Areyatta had to innovate a new ‘to go’ verb from mérsı ‘walk’.

• Mérsı ya tápsası·ha!
  mérsı ya tápsa·sı=ha
  go and find·IMP=3SG.OBL
  Go and find him!

[All4Ɇn]

Îçlo

Vàl trovare!
[vɑl̪ t̪roˈvɑːrɛ]
(To one person)

Ambiatal trovare
[ämˈbjɑːt̪äl̪ t̪roˈvɑːrɛ]
(To multiple people)

Vandol trovare
[ˈvɑːn̪d̪ol̪ t̪roˈvɑːrɛ]
(Formally to one person)

[Imralu]

1. Go find him!
2. Go and find him!

English seemingly allows a construction similar to the German one. The infinitive and imperative are of course morphologically identical in English but it is very tempting to interpret find as an infinitive in example 1 and an imperative in example 2. That way, we could say that English has both a "West Germanic-type" construction and a "North Germanic-type" construction.

In my dialect (Australian English), only #2 is found. "Go find him" sounds distinctly American to me. I remember hearing someone call the game hide-and-seek hide-and-go-seek when I was a kid and thinking that sounded really wrong.

[Znex]

1. Go find him!
2. Go and find him!

English seemingly allows a construction similar to the German one. The infinitive and imperative are of course morphologically identical in English but it is very tempting to interpret find as an infinitive in example 1 and an imperative in example 2. That way, we could say that English has both a "West Germanic-type" construction and a "North Germanic-type" construction.

In my dialect (Australian English), only #2 is found. "Go find him" sounds distinctly American to me. I remember hearing someone call the game hide-and-seek hide-and-go-seek when I was a kid and thinking that sounded really wrong.

I think you're right about that. #1 feels a bit forced to me.

[Canis]

A very easy clause. Somehow, Finnish always expresses it "Go to seek him". How is it with the other languages?

Go and find him!
Mene etsimään hänet!

Nothing complex.

Ahtialan Ayllawai
Изі иs; таукааиs кє!
[ˈiːzi‿ˌjis . ˈtäŭka̤ːˌiːs kɛ]
go-IMP search-IMP he

You can make it less of an imperative and more of a strict order or a threat by using an initial particle I always call "a superparticle". There's a whole series of them, in writing they are spelled by ideograms, and in Cyrillic they are spelled phonetically with a middle dot after them to reflect the fact that there is supposed to be an ideogram there.
Кі-арі· изі иs єєт таукааиs кє!
[ki.ʔä.ˈɾi ˈiːzi iːs ɦɛ̤t ˌtäŭ.ka̤ːˈiːs kɛ]
IMP go-IMP and search-IMP he

Polish
Idź i go szukaj!
/ˈit͡ɕ i gɔ ˈʂukäj/
[ˈit͡ɕ ʔi gɔ ˈʂukäj]
go-IMP and he-ACC seek-2sg.IMP

[k1234567890y]

Lonmai Luna

romanization: siku soho sum bat dala!
interlinear: IMP go and.then find 3.SG
translation: Go and find him!

[Creyeditor]

No conlang with ventive vs. itive/andative distinction yet? I'm slightly disappointed

[pittmirg]

Polish
Idź i go szukaj!
/ˈit͡ɕ i gɔ ˈʂukäj/
[ˈit͡ɕ ʔi gɔ ˈʂukäj]
go-IMP and he-ACC seek-2sg.IMP

Also could be phrased idź go szukaj (asyndeton) or idź go szukać (infinitive instead of the second imperative); to me these sound more natural (idź i go szukaj works if idź is strongly stressed).

ventive vs. itive/andative distinction

I find it interesting that Polish only has a distinction that highly resembles come vs go in the imperative.

[Batz]

Naguil

Vai limu ungui.
/'vaːi 'liːmu ʊŋ'gu.i/
Vai lim-u un-g-ui.
Go find-CVB 3SG.M/F-who-ACC.
Go and find him/her.

[lsd]

3SDL:
rÅK¶v¶]sÅ
(your movement please indicating him...)

[Imralu]

There are two different ways in Wena/Hibuese/Ngeho/Zyange Ho/whatever name I call it, because "look for" is a compound of either "hunt-hold" or "hunt-see", depending on what the purpose of looking for the object is.

(1)
He zolo nguvwe zyi.
he zo-lo ngu-vwe zyi
JUSS locomoteA-situation huntA-seeA GEN.DEF
Go and find him (in order to know where he is).

(2)
He zolo nguza zyi.
he zo-lo ngu-za zyi
JUSS locomoteA-situation huntA-holdA GEN.DEF
Go and find him (to capture or bring him back).

Both sentences could lose the he for an extremely direct imperative.

Zolo is used to talk about moving somewhere for the purpose of doing something else, like go and do (go do in US English) or go doing (e.g. "go swimming"). Lo is used in the equivalent of a gerund or infinitive phrase, so it's hardly an exciting derivation. The only unusual thing is that it's compounded onto zo, but that's just because the lo is unstressed anyway and it looks much neater than having zo lo, so it's just a writing convention to regard them as one word.

[LinguistCat]

Go and find him!

Old Nyango (no official Japanese based writing system yet)
(kare wo) saŋash yuche.
kare wo saŋash yuche
3PS OBJ find.INF go.IMP

[Arayaz]

Unnamed

Inaiamhattaoaonokao!
ina-iam-hattao-aon-o-kao
go-FUT-look.for-2-3-COMPL
Go to find him!

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[Omzinesý]

Dlor

Ká, be-bék sa!
sg2.VOC, ANDAT-find sg3
'Go and find him!'

Ka 'you' is the only word that has a special vocative form ká.
Dlor has an andative form 'to go and V'.
Imperative always demands a vocative "subject", like ká.

Bék 'to find' can be used in the imperative. Rábek 'to look for' just emphasizes the action not result.
The "imperfective" form would be formed with an antipassive.

Ká, be-rá-bek tlu sa!
sg2.VOC, ANDAT-ANTIP-find for sg3
'Go and be looking for him!'

[Flavia]

Abaniscen

(Bi) shasim i is catunnanasi aya!
[býʃaɕĩm ʔʲiʔʲískatũnːã́naɕi ʔaja]
2s-O go-SUBJ that-O 3s-D find-SUBJ-PFV cause
Go so that he may be found!

(Bi) shasim a (bi) is catunnasi!
[býʃaɕĩm ʔabýʔʲiskatṹnːaɕi]
2s-O go-SUBJ and 2s-O 3s-D find-SUBJ
Go and find him!

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