misgenerate

misgenerate

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ generate

Verb

misgenerate (third-person singular simple present misgenerates, present participle misgenerating, simple past and past participle misgenerated)

1. To generate incorrectly.
   • 1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education, Hearing on the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, page 78:

     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.

   • 1999, Elaine C. Klein, ‎Gita Martohardjono, The Development of Second Language Grammars, page 364:

     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).

   • 2007, Robert Freidin, Generative Grammar: Theory and its History:

     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.