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Is it actually described as "over-dividing" in an academic sense? Those individual words do have meaning, but they have later been recombined into forms that ha
by resu_nimda 11y ago
Is it actually described as "over-dividing" in an academic sense? Those individual words do have meaning, but they have later been recombined into forms that have new, sometimes orthogonal meanings. I can see the argument for mashing them back together in that case, but "over-divided" seems a strange way to look at it.
- vfdfv 11y agoA related idea is linguistic "compositionality" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_compositionality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_compositionality I don't have hard numbers, but I know from experience that a large share of multiword expressions are non-compositional (the meaning of the larger phrase can't be inferred from its constituents), so in that case thinking of them as "over-divided" makes sense to me.
- Nadya 11y agoIn linguistics, we call such phrases "idioms". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom