misformulate

Definitions

To formulate incorrectly.

Examples

“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 time.”

“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.”

“They misformulate their own⟳ existential insights in ways that either deprive their theories of political relevance or lead⟳ to tragically mistaken political commitments.”

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