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misformulates

misformulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misformulate.

Meaning of misformulate

Verb

misformulate (third-person singular simple present misformulates, present participle misformulating, simple past and past participle misformulated)

  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...1979, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on Linguistics, page 66

Questions about misformulates

What is misformulates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misformulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misformulate.

Words near misformulates in the dictionary

  1. misformed
  2. misforming
  3. misforms
  4. misformulate
  5. misformulated
  6. misformulates
  7. misformulating
  8. misformulation
  9. misformulations
  10. misfortunate
  11. misfortunately

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