... material, physical objects, causality, functionality, force, and shape. Our approach to lexical semantics is then to construct core theories of each of these areas, and then to define, or at least ... project, and it will be described in subsequent papers. This work represents a convergence of research in lexical semantics in linguistics and efforts in AI to encode com- monsense knowledge. Lexical ... "last night", and so on. The change ontology is exhibited in most verbs, and in temporal clausal connectives. The universal presence of both classes of lexical items and grammatical mark-...