Misformulate
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To formulate incorrectly.
"If children misformulate Dative Shift as a substitution of the PP dominated NP for a base generated NP position, as the hypothesis proposed here suggests they should, we can expect to hear strings like those in (18) produced by children and can predict that children will find them grammatical for a time."
Synonyms
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More examples"If children misformulate Dative Shift as a substitution of the PP dominated NP for a base generated NP position, as the hypothesis proposed here suggests they should, we can expect to hear strings like those in (18) produced by children and can predict that children will find them grammatical for a time."
Etymology
From mis- + formulate.