rebracketing

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Alternative forms

• re-bracketing

Etymology

From re- +‎ bracketing.

Noun

Examples (sense 1)
hamburger as ham +‎ burger (rather than Hamburg +‎ -er) helicopter as heli +‎ copter (rather than helico- +‎ -pter) weblog as we +‎ blog (rather than web +‎ log)

rebracketing (countable and uncountable, plural rebracketings)

2. (linguistics) The process by which a word originally derived from one source is broken down or bracketed into a different set of factors.

   Synonyms: metanalysis, misdivision, resegmentation

Translations

the process by which a word originally derived from one source is broken down or bracketed into a different set of factors — see also reanalysis

French: métanalyse (fr) f, mécoupure (fr) f Hungarian: szóhatár-eltolódás Indonesian: keliru susun Portuguese: metanálise f Japanese: 異分析 (ibunseki)

See also

• folk etymology
• libfix
• reanalysis
• surface analysis