<s>
Generative	B-General_Concept
lexicon	I-General_Concept
(	O
GL	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
theory	O
of	O
linguistic	O
semantics	O
which	O
focuses	O
on	O
the	O
distributed	O
nature	O
of	O
compositionality	O
in	O
natural	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
major	O
work	O
outlining	O
the	O
framework	O
is	O
James	O
Pustejovsky	O
's	O
1991	O
article	O
"	O
The	O
Generative	B-General_Concept
Lexicon	I-General_Concept
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Unlike	O
purely	O
verb-based	O
approaches	O
to	O
compositionality	O
,	O
generative	B-General_Concept
lexicon	I-General_Concept
attempts	O
to	O
spread	O
the	O
semantic	O
load	O
across	O
all	O
constituents	O
of	O
the	O
utterance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Perhaps	O
the	O
most	O
controversial	O
aspect	O
of	O
GL	O
has	O
been	O
the	O
manner	O
in	O
which	O
lexically	B-Application
encoded	O
knowledge	O
is	O
exploited	O
in	O
the	O
construction	O
of	O
interpretations	O
for	O
linguistic	O
utterances	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Event	B-General_Concept
structure	I-General_Concept
:	O
defining	O
the	O
event	O
type	O
of	O
the	O
expression	O
and	O
any	O
subeventual	O
structure	O
it	O
may	O
have	O
;	O
with	O
subevents	O
;	O
</s>
