"come and" (V) as quasi-auxiliary

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

     If there are no other examples of this sort of usage, we may deal with a syntactic blend in this particular case: 
 
"In about an hour I'm going to be taken off the pump" + "In about an hour a nurse is going to come and take me off the pump."
 
Gerald Cohen

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Original message from Mark Mandel,  Fri 11/28/2008 10:44 AM:

Just heard in phone conversation: "in about an hour I'm going to come and be
taken off the pump". What's going to happen at that time is that a nurse is
going to come to the speaker's house and disconnect the speaker from a
medical infusion pump. So this seems to be an agentless passivization of "X
will come and take me off the pump", with "come and" treated as a kind of
auxiliary.

Mark Mandel

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