Misgenerate

Quick meaning: Misgenerate is a verb meaning To generate incorrectly.

Meaning

To generate incorrectly.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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).

Word Forms

• misgenerates
• misgenerating
• misgenerated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include miscompile, miscompute, misencode, miscompose, mismerge, miscreate.

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