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misgenerate

verb

Etymology

From mis- + generate.

  1. learned borrowing from generātus
  2. prefixed as misgenerate — “mis + generate”

Definitions

  1. To generate incorrectly.

    • 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).
    • 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 neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misgenerate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA