misgeneralise
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]misgeneralise (third-person singular simple present misgeneralises, present participle misgeneralising, simple past and past participle misgeneralised)
- Alternative form of misgeneralize
- 1989, Hendrik J. Boom, Claus Bendix Nielsen, Andrew D. McGettrick, Peter D. Mosses, Charles Rattray, Robert D. Tennent, David A. Watt, “A view of formal semantics”, in Computer standards & Interfaces, volume 9, number 1:
- Informal techniques, if properly written, can be quite readable and comprehensible; unfortunately, it is easy to leave unsaid details that must be specified, or to misgeneralise and produce inconsistencies.
- 2006, Jaume Solà, Anna Gavarró, Subextraction in Romance interrogatives:
- If presence of de in nominal dislocates is indeed evidence of previous split Case licensing, the child will be led to assume its presence in the target language and may possibly misgeneralise it to other cases.