COME vs GO

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:22 PM +0100 11/17/00, Jim Walker wrote:
>  >>      I have been thinking and believe that the constraint applies in
>>>  other cases too. If you are puritanistic you may want to skip this
>>>  paragraph and not come/go/get into the following considerations with me.
>>>  In sexual intercourse a man can only tell his partner that he is coming,
>>>  not going, I suppose. His partner naturally can only invite him to come.
>>>  Are there other cases where such a rigid constraint is associated with
>>>  COME, against GO--or the other way around?
>
>How felicitous is the reference to a "rigid constraint" in this context?
>
hard to say