According to Aristotle, there are four basic factors or causes by which the nature of an object can be described (cf. (Kronlid, 2003) ): the material cause, i.e. the material an object is made of the agentive cause, i.e. the source of movement, creation or change the formal cause, i.e. its form or type the final cause, i.e. its purpose, intention or aim In his Generative Lexicon (GL) framework <cite>(Pustejovsky, 1991)</cite> reused Aristotle's basic factors for the description of the meaning of lexical elements.