Event Structure

Sense · Attitude / Evaluation

attributeATT

Ascription. Charge as object, Target as to-PP. Levin’s ascribe class, as the entry puts it.

Hierarchy

Cognizer / Judge > Charge / Content > Target. Inner relation ASCRIBE. No productive DOC, with-frame, for-frame, or on-frame. Institutions and author-metonymic documents can be Judge. Weather cannot.

English frames

  1. ✓ The board attributed the early completion to the contractor.
  2. * The board attributed the contractor the early completion.
  3. * The board attributed the contractor with the early completion.
  4. * The weather attributed the delay to the airline.
  5. ✓ The report attributed the delay to the airline.

The Group A charge paper names attribute in the √ASCRIBE family and points at Attribute_GroupA_Larson_Shells. That plate is this sense, not attributeXFER. Index 2 does not split atribuir / attribuer / attribuire into ATT versus XFER.

Attribute Group A Larson shell plate: ascription geometry with Judge, Charge, and Target, across the Group A languages.
Attribute Group A Larson shells. Read as attributeATT (ascription). attributeXFER is a different root and is not this drawing. The figure is not re-derived in prose here.

Index 2 citations for this class

Attitude / Evaluation citations from Index 2
CodeLanguageIndex 2 citationAs printed
ENEnglishblame, credit, attributeVols. 1, 3
ESSpanishculpar, atribuirVols. 3, 5
FRFrenchblâmer, attribuerVols. 3, 5
ITItalianincolpare, attribuireVols. 3, 5
HUHungarianhibáztat, okol, tulajdonít, elismer, jóváírVols. 3, 6
BGBulgarianобвинявам / виня, приписвам / отдавамVols. 3, 6
PLPolishobwiniać / winić, przypisywaćVols. 3, 6
DEGermanbeschuldigen, verantwortlich machen, zuschreibenVol. 7
NLDutchde schuld geven, toeschrijvenVol. 7
NONorwegianlegge skylden påVol. 7

Languages Index 2 does not list for this class are left off the table.

Corpus filenames

Nine further attribute files are counted in the seed and not named. They are not assigned to ATT versus XFER.

ChargeACCUSE Group A derivation