A related idea is linguistic &quot;compositionality&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Principle_of_compositionality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Principle_of_compositionality</a><p>I don&#x27;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&#x27;t be inferred from its constituents), so in that case thinking of them as &quot;over-divided&quot; makes sense to me.