misformulate

Etymology

From mis- + formulate.

misformulate means to formulate incorrectly. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

verb

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 time.”