This study empirically demonstrated the development of the special usage of the go V construction, went to go V, as in I went to go visit her. To this end, this study explored the change in frequency of went to go V and the relation between the usage and the syntactic environments where the go V construction occurs. Statistical analyses of data from the Movie Corpus revealed two main findings. First, went to go V was first attested in the 1970s in the corpus and has since dramatically increased especially between the 1990s and the 2010s. Second, between the 1940s and the 1960s, the go V construction was closely related to the hortative usage, while from the 1990s to the 2010s, it was linked to semimodal contexts. Considering these findings, this study concluded that went to go V spread substantially since the late twentieth century, potentially influenced by the gradual increase in nonhortative, semimodal usage.