misformulate
misformulate verb: to formulate incorrectly.
Verb
misformulate (third-person singular simple present misformulates, present participle misformulating, simple past and past participle misformulated)
- 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...1979, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on Linguistics, page 66
- Della Rocca's focus on the question of whether God could privilege one finite mode over the other leads him to misformulate Spinoza's critique of divine teleology.2013, Stewart Duncan, Antonia LoLordo, Debates in Modern Philosophy
Forms of misformulate
| third-person singular present | misformulates |
|---|---|
| present participle | misformulating |
| past participle | misformulated |
| past | misformulated |
Origin of misformulate
From mis- + formulate.
Questions about misformulate
- What does misformulate mean?
- Misformulate means to formulate incorrectly.
- What part of speech is misformulate?
- Misformulate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of misformulate?
- The past tense of misformulate is misformulated.
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