Other landmarks include research on default feature specification in syntactic theory and default lexical inheritance (e.g., Gazdar et al. 1985; Boguraev & Pustejovsky 1990; Lascarides et al. 1996), where default inheritance comes from a simple idea pertaining to all taxonomies: regular features belonging to an entity of a certain type are inherited from the categories higher up in the taxonomic hierarchy, that is simply by virtue of the membership of a certain ontological type. As a result,