Come with; was Re: Natural-Born Lover : Words

[Barbara Need]

>I said:
>
>>I understood it, but I share Wilson's desire for support for the hypothesis.
>>This seems to me to be very, very far from the implicit 2s. SUBJECT of an
>>imperative. Are there any known such cases?
>
>Larry answered:
>
>         >>>
>%Can I come with? [when it's clear that the addressee is the missing
>object]
>
>Of course, this isn't specifically "YOU understood", but any object
>in the appropriate context (for the appropriate dialect).
>         <<<
>
>Distinguo. In addition to your "of course",
>
>2. That is the object of a preposition, not of the verb.
>
>3. This collocation, "come with", is idiomatic; the construction is not
>productive.
>
>-- Mark, still waiting for evidence

How widespread is come with? I first encountered it in Milwaukee
(1982) and then heard it in Chicago (after 1984). I assumed (and was
told) it was related to the German Kommst du mit?

Barbara