misgenerate
English
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editmisgenerate (third-person singular simple present misgenerates, present participle misgenerating, simple past and past participle misgenerated)
- To generate incorrectly.
- 1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education, Hearing on the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, page 78:
- The evidence was misinterpreted —aside from the fact that it was misgenerated in terms of research design — and that misinterpretation was replicated in study after study after study for about 35 years.
- 1999, Elaine C. Klein, Gita Martohardjono, The Development of Second Language Grammars, page 364:
- A child who encounters English (1) and mistakenly takes it to be a V2 construction would acquire the wrong grammar and would then misgenerate V2 sentences that are ungrammatical in English (e.g., *Me saw John, with the object in SpecCP).
- 2007, Robert Freidin, Generative Grammar: Theory and its History:
- In the case of cyclicity what requires an explanation is why a grammar of English, which incorporates (53) in some form, does not misgenerate all the SCC violations discussed above.