-
different set. For example, hamburger,
originally from Hamburg+er, has been
rebracketed into ham+burger, and
burger was
later reused as a
productive morpheme...
- names, most of them
based on
rebracketing. He
provides the
following gag names, all
based on
common names that, when
rebracketed,
create a
jocular meaning:...
- the
pronoun shifted from min to mi and
children learning the
language rebracketed the
utterance /mined/ from the
original "min Ed" ( [ [ min ] [ ed ] ]...
- no
specific connection between the dish and the city. By
linguistic rebracketing, the term "burger"
eventually became a self-standing word that is ****ociated...
-
variant form
originated through the loss of the
first syllable through rebracketing and the
replacement of
final /t/ with /l/ (as /t/ does not
appear word-finally...
- series. To see the
first inequality, the
terms of the
original series are
rebracketed into runs
whose lengths are
powers of two, and then each run is bounded...
-
caused by
reanalysis of the
structure of a word
include rebracketing and back-formation. In
rebracketing,
users of the
language change, misinterpret, or reinterpret...
- spiral, whirl, convolution" and
pteron (πτερόν) "wing". In a
process of
rebracketing, the word is
often (erroneously, from an
etymological point of view)...
- *[par-ʕoʔ]
evolved into
Sahidic Coptic ⲡⲣ̅ⲣⲟ pərro and then ərro by
rebracketing p- as the
definite article "the" (from
ancient Egyptian pꜣ).
Other notable...
- Book of Genesis. In the 14th century, 'a nadder' in
Middle English was
rebracketed to 'an adder' (just as 'a napron'
became 'an apron' and 'a nompere' changed...
