metanalysis

• Pleonasms always exhibit a broadening of boundaries, and it is undoubtedly true that boundaries are among the most unstable of linguistic entities, more liable to shift (metanalysis) over time than other such units.
• I'm looking for someone who can complete a metanalysis on the effectiveness of art therapy in the treatment of mental disorders. —  GetAFreelancer.com New Projects
• She drew her results from a "metanalysis" of existing research into the effects of marijuana on driving ability, combined with traffic accident statistics in the United States and Australia, finding that "(w) hile smoking marijuana does impair driving ability, it does not share alcohol's effect on judgment. —  The Liberty Papers
• But in one of those lexicographical detours I so often find myself on, I came across an odd nautical slang word for 'the sea,' oggin, that's only attested from 1945; the OED says "Origin uncertain; perhaps variant of NOGGIN n. with metanalysis (see N n.). —  languagehat.com
• From the beginning of the Middle English period, the coexistence of two forms of the indefinite article (an before vowels and a before consonants) often led to metanalysis (the same phenomenon occurs in other languages where the indefinite article ends in - —  languagehat.com

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