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    It is not the case that Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon shows 'book' systematically means both physical object and informational content via co-predication.

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    • 1.Co-predication may reflect pragmatic context-shifting, not semantic ambiguity requiring special lexical machinery—we don't need Pustejovsky's framework to explain it.
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    • 2.Qualia structure itself is stipulated without independent empirical evidence that speakers psychologically encode telic/constitutive roles during word access.
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    • 3.Alternative accounts (e.g., underspecified core meaning + composition, or metonymic extension) explain the same data more parsimoniously without novel theoretical apparatus.
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    • 1.Co-predication (e.g., 'book is heavy but informative') is linguistically natural and requires explaining how one noun supports multiple incompatible properties.
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    • 2.Generative Lexicon captures systematic polysemy: 'book' meanings aren't arbitrary but predictably related through qualia structure (constitutive/telic roles).
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    • 3.Native speakers intuitively grasp both senses without consulting multiple dictionary entries, suggesting unified lexical representation rather than homonymy.
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