allocate_GOAL · asignar / destinar

Hierarchy

Same inventory as English allocate_GOAL. Not three co-arguments of one V predicting a stable DOC and a transfer. Surface count can name the president, 14M BTC, and the ministry — but the listed third is a Goal individual y via Spanish a (DAT-cliticizable), not a Purpose property via para (earmark). HAVE(y,m) is optional / speaker-variable, not required. Writing those three as sisters of a grant-like Appl_HAVE predicts a productive DOC and a drawing-rights challenge to e2. Spanish keeps the middle — and the DAT clitic makes Goal look grant-adjacent without forcing HAVE.

14M BTC = one MeasureP. Orthography is not extra arity. Amount and Denomination share one Case object. Composition is V(Theme), not V(n)(U). Hom(m, e): the designation is measured by the quantity. Partitive en tracks quantity on the Theme — not a second object and not Goal (y tracks venue / dossier, not Goal).

Working hierarchy: Agent > Theme > Goal (> optional Purpose, Time, Source — high / peripheral). Theme outranks Goal for measuring; Goal can promote in passive (unlike earmark’s Beneficiary). What Group B Spanish changes is Case cloth (DAT clitic cheapness). What it does not change is the inventory.

∃e [ DESIGNATE(e)
  ∧ THEME(e, m)
  ∧ GOAL(e, y)
  ∧ Hom(m, e) ]
  · HAVE(y, m) optional / speaker-variable — not listed as required

Spanish frames · Case clothes

Theme object under ACC; Goal as a-PP that can cliticize as DAT le and can promote. DOC is degraded / speaker-variable (?*asignaron al ministerio 14M) — between earmark (no) and grant (yes). Four-place surface: a-Goal + para-Purpose. Primary lemma: asignar / asignar fondos a. Hinge companion destinar a stays Goal-leaning allocate — not full HAVE unless coerced toward conceder / otorgar. Contrast reservar / afectar para (Purpose / earmark cloth) — flagged, not merged.

1. ✓ El presidente asignó 14M BTC al ministerio. canonical · ACC Theme · a-Goal
2. ✓ El presidente asignó 14M BTC al ministerio para tecnología. four-place · a-Goal + para-Purpose
3. ✓ Asignaron fondos al laboratorio para comprar energía. Purpose infinitive · Type B extra
4. ✓ Asignaron el excedente. Goal contextually bound
5. ✓ Asignaron 14M para tecnología. Goal dropped · looks like earmark · packaging change
6. ✓ Destinaron 14M BTC al ministerio. destinar hinge · Goal-leaning · same GOAL cloth
7. ✓ Le asignaron 14M BTC al ministerio. DAT clitic · Goal · cheap Neg associate
8. ? El presidente asignó al ministerio 14M BTC. DOC · degraded / speaker-variable
9. ?* Asignó al ministerio 14M … same DOC cut · many prefer a-frame
10. ✓ ¿No se asignaron 14M BTC al ministerio? Theme QP promotes / impersonal
11. ✓ ¿No se le asignaron 14M BTC al ministerio? Goal DAT · grant-like · * on earmark Ben
12. ✓ El ministerio fue asignado 14M BTC. Goal promote · register-sensitive · hinge vs earmark
13. * ¿No se le afectaron 14M BTC al ministerio? as allocate Goal earmark contrast · afectar para · Ben ≠ Goal DAT
14. ✓ ¿No se le concedieron 14M BTC al laboratorio? grant · HAVE Recipient promotes cleanly
15. * Asignaron nueva tecnología 14M BTC. Purpose ≠ DOC object
16. * Asignaron 14M BTC que gane Trump. Goal ≠ settlement Content
17. * Asignaron a Kim al turno de noche. allocate_POST · off this page
18. * Asignaron la culpa al contratista. allocate_ASCRIBE · off this page
19. * Asignaron tres horas al problema. allocate_SLOT · off this page

MeasureP WH · denomination diagnostics

WH forces Amount ≠ Denomination inside one Case object. Verbal WH sees the Theme MeasureP under ACC, not unit and degree as two objects of allocate. Same MeasureP pattern as pay_GIVE’s Amount, sell’s Price, charge_FEE’s fee, deduct’s decrement, bet’s Stake, and earmark’s Resource — here the MeasureP is the addressed Theme (ACC), and Goal stays a selected a-PP / DAT (or promoted).

1. ✓ ¿Cuánto BTC asignó el presidente al ministerio? unit bound
2. ✓ ¿Cuánto asignó el presidente al ministerio? unit contextually bound
3. ✓ ¿Cuánto de qué asignaron al ministerio? n and U inside host
4. ✓ ¿En qué / de qué / en qué denominación asignaron 14M?
5. ✓ ¿Qué asignaron al ministerio? bare WHAT · Theme
6. * ¿Qué asignaron 14M al ministerio? LBC · stranded n
7. * ¿Qué 14M asignaron al ministerio? U does not invert over n
8. ✓ ¿A quién asignaron 14M BTC? Goal
9. ✓ ¿Para qué asignaron 14M BTC? Purpose extra
10. ? ¿A qué asignaron 14M BTC? Goal is an individual, not a use
11. * ¿A quién afectaron 14M BTC? as allocate Goal a-Goal is wrong cloth on earmark-leaning afectar para
12. ✓ ¿Cuánto BTC a quién asignaron? Superiority · Theme > Goal
13. ✓ ¿Cuánto BTC le asignaron? en / quantity · DAT Goal

Superiority ranks Agent > Theme > Goal > (optional Purpose / Time / Source). Amount and Denomination never compete as two verbal WH-items. Cheap NegQ association tracks the Case object: ACC MeasureP under asignar, plus DAT Goal clitic as a Romance cheap associate (the Group B reason allocate looks more grant-like than earmark). en tracks quantity; y tracks venue / dossier, not Goal.

Geometry · allocate_GOAL ≠ earmark ≠ grant_GIVE ≠ vender ≠ acreditar_FIN

In El presidente asignó 14M BTC al ministerio, the BTC is addressed to an office. The ministry need not HAVE drawing rights. Spending is not e2. That is Allocation with Goal flavour — between Purpose-restriction (earmark / reservar / afectar para) and conferral (grant / conceder / otorgar).

• ≠ earmark / reservar / afectar para. Shared designation, MeasureP, authority, Type B Purpose, missing spend-true. Split: listed third is Goal individual y via a (allocate) vs Purpose property P via para (earmark). Goal DAT / promote (✓ ¿No se le asignaron 14M?); earmark Beneficiary does not (*¿No se le afectaron 14M? as Goal). HAVE idle on earmark, sliding on allocate.
• ≠ grant_GIVE / conceder / otorgar. Shared promotable human third and a-frame / DAT clitic available. Split: grant requires Appl_HAVE / HAVE-RIGHT; allocate’s HAVE is optional. Grant has productive DOC / Recipient-as-HAVE; allocate’s DOC is degraded / speaker-variable. Follow-up No — el ministerio nunca recibió derechos de disposición challenges grant e2; on allocate it is speaker-variable (budget-speak vs disbursement-speak). destinar a is the hinge — Goal-leaning, still not full HAVE unless coerced toward conceder / otorgar.
• ≠ book / reserve / schedule / reservar / planificar. Same Allocation family (Index 2 lists those). Split: reserve a cabin para el equipo is Beneficiary; schedule para el viernes is Time; allocate 14M BTC al ministerio is Goal. Earmark is Purpose flavour of the same family.
• ≠ vender / sell. Sell: Recipient HAS goods; Price stays inside por. Allocate: Theme is ACC MeasureP of the designation; al ministerio is Goal, not Price. No SWAP inversion. Spending not entailed.
• ≠ bet / apostar. Shared MeasureP packaging. Split: bet’s third is settlement Content (Proposition); allocate’s is a Goal individual. *asignaron 14M a que gane Trump — Goal is not Settle(p).
• ≠ charge_FEE / pay_GIVE / deduct / credit_FIN. Shared MeasureP Hom available. Split: chargeFEE / pay write levy or Appl_HAVE transfer; deduct writes FROM decrement; credit_FIN writes ledger HAS_ON_BOOKS (a/en Account). Allocate tags/addresses a line without requiring those results. Particle overlap (a on credit_FIN Account vs allocate Goal) is packaging coincidence, not geometry identity — FIN entails HAS_ON_BOOKS; allocate does not.
• HAVE as sliding feature. Follow-up No — el ministerio nunca recibió derechos de disposición: idle challenge to earmark e2; default challenge to grant e2; speaker-variable on allocate. That middle is why institutional Spanish keeps asignar / destinar next to conceder / otorgar.
• Restriction / address-true is e2. A follow-up that denies spending or HAVE does not (by default) deny the allocate event. Reallocate (reasignar) redirects Goal; later event.

Shells, ApplP, and Case

VoiceP  [ el presidente
  VP  [ √ALLOCATE_GOAL / √ASIGNAR   [ MeasureP  [ Amount 14M ] [ N BTC ] ] ]
  GoalP / Appl_GOAL  [ a  [ el ministerio ] ]   · DAT clitic le
  (PurpP  [ para  [ tecnología ] ]) ]

Packaging (same geometry):
  asignar · asignar fondos a · destinar a (hinge)
  — Goal stays a / DAT; Purpose stays para

Voice introduces Agent with AUTHORITY(x,e) as a selectional / felicity conjunct — not a fifth argument. Presidents, treasuries, CFOs, protocols, and statutes pass; bare persons need a hat; weather fails. Theme sits as Incremental Theme of the designation under ACC. Goal attaches as Appl_GOAL / wrapper-K spelled a / DAT — listed enough to cliticize and promote, not listed enough to force HAVE the way grant’s Recipient does. Purpose, when present, is Type B para outside the first phase. Putting required HAVE in is how the grant cloth (conceder / otorgar) is written — a different root packaging.

Spanish assigns ACC to the Theme. Goal is a-PP / DAT (or promoted). Purpose, Time, Source are further PPs. Passive / impersonal promotes Theme QP as a whole, or Goal via DAT / subject (✓), never Amount alone, never U alone, never Purpose into subject.

Underivables (Spanish · this root)

1. * Nueva tecnología fue asignada 14M BTC. Purpose ≠ ACC
2. * 14M fueron asignados BTC al ministerio. Amount ≠ separate passive
3. * BTC fueron asignados 14M al ministerio. U ≠ separate passive
4. * ¿Qué asignaron 14M al ministerio? LBC · stranded n
5. * Asignaron 14M BTC que gane Trump. Goal ≠ Content
6. * El mal tiempo asignó 14M BTC al ministerio. Voice filter
7. * ¿No se le afectaron 14M BTC al ministerio? as allocate Goal earmark Ben cloth · use this root / grant
8. * Asignaron a Kim al turno de noche. POST distractor · off page
9. * Asignaron la culpa al contratista. ASCRIBE distractor · off page
10. * Asignaron tres horas al problema. SLOT distractor · off page
11. * ¿A quién no afectaron 14M BTC? as allocate Goal a-Goal is allocate cloth on earmark

NegQ pointer · association sites

Negative questions on allocate_GOAL read the Allocation-plus-Goal geometry; they do not invent a fourth theta name. Neg sits high and associates downward. Cheap inner associate = Theme QP in the a-frame, plus DAT Goal clitic (Group B cheap associate). Purpose stays para when present. Spend-true missing as default; HAVE challenge speaker-variable.

Group B packaging · this tick Spanish GOAL only

Group B (Spanish, French, Italian) keeps the Goal vs Purpose Case split under Neg, with DAT / à / a as the allocate Goal that can cliticize. This tick is Spanish allocate_GOAL only — asignó 14M BTC al ministerio (ACC Theme, a-Goal / DAT le); Purpose para extra; hinge destinar a Goal-leaning without forcing HAVE. English twin live at allocate-goal.html; Japanese twin at allocate-goal-ja.html. French twin live at allocate-goal-fr.html. Italian: destinare / stanziare a vs accantonare / vincolare per — pointed, not deepened. Label speculation; do not fake elicitation.

Open items

• asignar vs destinar productivity. asignar stays primary allocate; destinar a is hinge (Goal-leaning, not full HAVE unless coerced toward conceder / otorgar). Relative naturalness needs controlled elicitation — flagged scout-leaning, not closed. spec
• French allouer / affecter à. Now live at allocate-goal-fr.html. Remaining Romance: Italian. spec
• Italian destinare / stanziare a. Same Group B Goal cloth vs accantonare / vincolare per Purpose. spec
• Mandarin 拨给 / 分配给 / 把. 给 writes Goal (allocate diagnostic); 为了 marks Purpose (earmark diagnostic); 把 fronts the whole QP. Predicted from the comparison paper, not elicited. spec
• Polish GEN-neg on allocation — GEN on the Theme QP in the to-frame, not on Purpose, not on a stranded unit; Goal DAT/PP should refuse GEN unless Goal is ACC. Same prediction as bet / deduct / credit_FIN. spec
• DOC speaker map — which registers accept ?*asignó al ministerio 14M; NegQ cheapness tracks that cloth and the DAT clitic.
• HAVE sliding — budget-speak vs disbursement-speak packaging tests on asignar / destinar vs conceder / otorgar; do not force grant’s drawing-rights default.
• Outer CAUSE (hacer que la tesorería asigne …). Site on the making vs on the designation; Goal may promote under wrap; HAVE still not required.
• POST / ASCRIBE / SLOT distractors — keep off this NegQ profile; asignar is a common POST / task verb in Spanish. Separate stubs if deepened later.

Corpus filenames

Primary extract for this micro-entry; companions supply earmark sister geometry and Neg association. DOCX originals under the Tritransitive lit tree (lit/grok-tritransitive/files/). Text extract used this tick: /workspace/allocate_earmark_extract.txt (from Allocate_Earmark_Comparison.docx §11.2 Group B). Sister pages: allocate-goal.html · allocate-goal-ja.html.