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    It is not the case that Pustejovsky's generative lexicon theory holds that words like 'light' have a single underspecified semantic entry whose sense is completed by conceptual co-composition with context.

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    • 1.The 'underspecified entry' concept lacks clear formal criteria for what counts as one sense versus multiple senses at the lexical level.
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    • 2.Empirical psycholinguistic evidence shows people access distinct senses of polysemes rapidly, suggesting pre-stored alternatives rather than composition.
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    • 3.The theory delegates meaning-making to vague 'conceptual co-composition,' potentially explaining polysemy without falsifiable predictions.
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    • 1.Polysemy of words like 'light' (illumination vs. weight) resists discrete sense enumeration, suggesting unified underspecified entries.
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    • 2.Context-dependent meaning completion explains how speakers intuitively grasp novel uses without exhaustive dictionary lookup of senses.
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    • 3.Generative lexicon avoids the combinatorial explosion problem of listing all possible meanings in traditional discrete-sense approaches.
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