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metanalysis Philol.|mɛtəˈnælɪsɪs|
[f. meta- + analysis.]
Reinterpretation of the division between words or syntactic units: as adder ‹ OE. nædre by analysis in ME. of a naddre as an addre. Hence meˈtanalyse v. trans.
1914O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. II. v. 141, I have ventured to coin the word ‘metanalysis’ for the phenomenon frequent in all languages that words or word-groups are by a new generation analyzed differently from the analysis of a former age. 1940― Ibid. V. xix. 308 A good many sentences of this type are double-barrelled and present the possibility of a ‘metanalysis’, by which ‘It is good for a man/not to touch a woman’ may come to be apprehended ‘It is good/for a man not to touch a woman’. 1957G. V. Smithers Kyng Alisaunder II. 138 jker ‹ OE. nicor by a process of metanalysis in which an initial consonant is treated as the final consonant of the preceding word, or a final consonant is attracted into the beginning of the next word. 1962R. Quirk Use of English viii. 127 When the French word crevice..was introduced into Middle English, its connexion with ‘sea food’ caused people to metanalyse the final syllable as -fish (‘crayfish’). 1970B. M. H. Strang Hist. English iv. 250 Assimilations account for the /m/ (earlier /n/) in such words as comfort, noumpire (later metanalysed as umpire). Ibid. 268 For then ones metanalysed as for the nonce. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English iv. 162 Metanalysis describes the analysis of words or groups of words into new elements{ddd}a napron was metanalyzed to an apron. |