rebracketing

English

Alternative forms

  • re-bracketing

Etymology

From re- +‎ bracketing.

Noun

Examples (sense 1)

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

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