mislexicalize
verbEtymology
From mis- + lexicalize.
Definitions
To lexicalize incorrectly
To lexicalize incorrectly; to assign the wrong meaning to a word or group of words.
- The question was raised whether or not P had also mislexicalized the name of the nonsense object, and on the following visit to his home, he was asked to look for the laǒshủ from among a group of toys on the floor and bring it over to me.
- For example , this fact is problematic for the hypothesis, suggested to me at one point by Ken Drozd, that the child may have simply mislexicalized the universal quantifier as denoting a biconditional rather than a condition
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for mislexicalize. 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