Working paper · October 2026 · Bulgarian micro-entry · Attitude / ascribe content · Index 2 · Group C Inner European
attributeATT · приписвам
Attitude / ascribe-content sense in Bulgarian. Working name √ASCRIBE. Hierarchy Cognizer / Judge > Charge / Content > Target. Index 2 Bulgarian Attitude cites обвинявам / виня, приписвам / отдавам — this page deepens bare приписвам as content-ascribe. Productive cloth: ACC Charge + DAT/на-Target (pronominal dative му / ѝ / им and на-PP; Slavic DAT Target + ACC Charge, parallel to Hungarian DAT Target + ACC Charge). Nominal case is gone, so “DAT” is that pronominal slot plus на, not a noun ending. Light-noun приписване scout (Poss/AGR ≈ Judge; Target as DAT/на — на does not split GEN vs DAT; flag, parallel to Polish przypisanie notes). Companion отдавам is an alternate ascribe cloth — scout only, not a separate MERIT page. Contrast blame обвинявам / виня (ACC typically Target). MERIT has no credit-merit-bg.html — prose pointer only. Ledger MeasureP / Account sits at attributeXFER / FIN — pointer only. No DOC, no with-frame, no blame for/on cloth, no MeasureP. Voice filter. Cause-true is not entailed. Continues Group C after attributeATT · tulajdonít. Polish attributeATT · przypisywać is live and closes Group C ATT.
Working paper.
Bulgarian micro-entry continuing the Group C Inner European ATT set after Hungarian tulajdonít. Geometry from Lexical_Entry_Attribute_Argument_Structure and Group A Larson shells; NegQ maps from Negative_Questions_Attribute (chats 15 / 26) and the Attribute Group C shell plate (chat 04: BG cluster beside HU Focus and PL GEN-neg). Index 2 Attitude prints обвинявам / виня, приписвам / отдавам on one line — this page deepens the ascribe-content reading of приписвам. Constructed diagnostics diagnose ACC Charge + DAT/на-Target, clitic doubling as one Target, ли NegQ association, missing with/DOC/за/върху clothes, light-noun приписване (на ambiguity), and the ATT / blame / отдавам / XFER·FIN splits. They are working-paper hypotheses, not spontaneous-speech citations and not fake elicitation. English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, Hungarian, German, Dutch, and Norwegian ATT twins already live. There is no Bulgarian MERIT page. Polish przypisywać is live and closes Group C ATT. Navajo stays deferred.
Constructed examples.
Frames below are packaging hypotheses aligned with the lexical entry, Group A / Group C shell plates, the NegQ Attribute paper, and the live Hungarian ATT twin. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed — same missing defaults as creditMERIT and blame. Do not fake elicitation. отдавам strings are scout pointers for an alternate ascribe cloth, not a MERIT entry. XFER / FIN ledger strings appear only as contrast pointers and are not Index 2 Attitude forms.
Sense-class · ATT / blame / отдавам / XFER split (Index 2 line).
Index 2 lists Bulgarian Attitude as обвинявам / виня, приписвам / отдавам (Vols. 3, 6). This page deepens the ascribe-content reading of bare приписвам as √ASCRIBE (content / cause / authorship geometry; polarity open). Blame обвинявам / виня ascribes fault (ACC typically Target). отдавам can wear the same ACC + на cloth as an alternate ascribe — scout it, and do not deepen it as MERIT. No credit-merit-bg.html exists; do not invent that link. Ledger / book-HAVE readings sit at attributeXFER and a FIN MeasureP / Account pointer only. Bare ATT keeps ACC Charge + DAT/на-Target as content-ascribe.
Scout / deferred.
Light-noun приписване is scout-leaning: Poss/AGR on the event noun ≈ Judge, Target as DAT/на. A single на-phrase is not morphologically GEN vs DAT — flag that ambiguity (parallel to Polish przypisanie notes) and do not rank it. отдавам stays a companion pointer. Polish przypisywać is live (GEN vs DAT spelled apart on przypisanie). Navajo HANDLE packaging is deferred. No fake elicitation.
Hierarchy
Same inventory as English attributeATT, Spanish atribuir, French attribuer, Italian attribuire, Mandarin 归因于, Japanese 帰する, Hungarian tulajdonít, German zuschreiben, Dutch toeschrijven, and Norwegian tilskrive. Not five-place. Not four sisters of one V. Surface count can name the board, the early completion, the contractor, and an outer cause — but the lexicon does not list four co-arguments of √ASCRIBE.
Intended labeling (shared with English · Bulgarian cloth)
Voice introduces Judge (proto-Agent of the attitude). The ascription relates Charge to Target under HOLD. Bulgarian spells the productive cloth as ACC Charge + DAT/на-Target — приписвам нещо на някого, with pronominal dative му / ѝ / им in the same Target slot. Full noun phrases do not inflect for dative; на is the nominal spell-out of that Slavic DAT Target, parallel to Hungarian -nak/-nek. Clitic doubling (му … на изпълнителя) is one Target written twice, not a second argument and not a DOC. Light-noun приписването parks content-type N with Target in DAT/на; a на-phrase on the event noun can also read as Poss/AGR ≈ Judge. Optional high Affectee / outer CAUSE wrap Voice; they are not listed inner arguments.
No MeasureP on ATT. There is no verbal Amount+Denomination object unless Charge itself has been recoded as a quantified share (hybrid — flag, do not deepen as verbal MeasureP). Degrees that sneak in live on the Abney spine of Charge or of a light noun — Left Branch Condition for sell / pay / chargeFEE / creditFIN does not apply as a verbal diagnostic here. Polish GEN-neg on a FIN/deduct MeasureP is a different object and is not this page. ATT Charge under не … ли is content association, not a GEN-rewrite of a measuring QP.
What Group C changes for Bulgarian is WH clustering and the на / clitic spell-out of DAT Target. What it does not change is the inventory. Weather still satisfies Target and fails Judge. Cause-true is still not entailed. Charge and Target still do not invert at Transfer cost. Treating attributeATT as Agent > Theme > Goal, collapsing it with blame because both sit on the Index 2 line, reading отдавам as MERIT, or collapsing it with XFER/FIN because a ledger can also name an account, predicts a DOC, a HAVE entailment, a MeasureP LBC host, a productive with-frame, or a grammatical weather-as-Judge — none of those exist on ATT.
Bulgarian frames · Case clothes
Group C packages ascribe-content without a productive DOC. Productive cloth: Charge ACC, Target as pronominal DAT and/or на-PP (приписвам нещо на някого). Cheap NegQ association and cheap WH track ACC = Charge or the DAT/на Target. отдавам can repeat that cloth as an alternate ascribe — scout, not MERIT. Blame keeps ACC on Target. XFER / FIN ledger strings are pointers only.
✓ Съветът приписа ранното завършване на изпълнителя.на-Target · ACC Charge · bare приписвам · content-ascribe
✓ Докладът приписа закъснението на авиокомпанията.document-metonymy Judge · fine
✓ Приписаха закъснението на лошото време.weather = Target OK · impersonal 3pl
✓ Ранното завършване беше приписано на изпълнителя.passive promotes Charge · на-Target
✓ Не приписаха ли ранното завършване на изпълнителя?не … ли · association tracks Charge (ACC)
✓ Не на изпълнителя ли приписаха успеха?не … ли · Target-focus · на
✓ Приписаха му успеха.му = DAT Target; Charge ACC
✓ Приписаха му ранното завършване на изпълнителя.clitic doubling · one Target · not a DOC
✓ Light-noun scout: Приписването на комисията му на изпълнителя беше оспорено.приписване · Poss/AGR на ≈ Judge · DAT/на = Target · scout
# Приписването на изпълнителя беше оспорено.single на unresolved · Judge-possessor or Target · parallel to PL przypisanie GEN/DAT · do not rank
✓ Hybrid quantified Charge: Съветът приписа на изпълнителя 30 % от спестяванията.quantified Charge · not XFER MeasureP
✓ отдавам scout: Съветът отдаде успеха на изпълнителя.alternate ascribe cloth · not MERIT · do not deepen
✓ XFER / FIN pointer only: Съветът записа 0,3 ETH по сметката.ledger · not Index 2 · do not deepen
✓ blame contrast (live): Комисията обвини изпълнителя за закъснението.blame · direct object = Target · обвинявам
✓ blame contrast (live): Винят изпълнителя за закъснението.blame · direct object = Target · виня
* Лошото време приписа закъснението на изпълнителя?weather as Judge
* Съветът приписа на изпълнителя ранното завършване успеха.no second ACC Charge
* Съветът приписа изпълнителя с ранното завършване.no with-frame / с-Charge as productive ATT
* Съветът приписа закъснението върху изпълнителя.no blame onto-cloth (върху) as productive ATT
* Съветът приписа изпълнителя за ранното завършване.no blame for-cloth (за) as productive ATT
NegQ baseline · не … ли · association tracks Charge (ACC) or Target
✓ Не приписаха ли ранното завършване на изпълнителя?cheap = Charge ACC
✓ Не му ли приписаха успеха?DAT clitic = Target
✓ Приписаха ли успеха на изпълнителя?polar ли · no contrastive focus
✓ XFER / FIN contrast (pointer): Не записаха ли 0,3 ETH по сметката?
* Лошото време не приписа ли закъснението на някого?weather as Judge under Neg
* Не приписаха ли на изпълнителя завършването успеха?no Neg-rescued DOC
* Не приписаха ли изпълнителя с ранното завършване?no Neg-rescued with-frame
# Не приписаха ли ранното завършване на изпълнителя? — meaning the contractor didn’t cause it. cause-true not a default
A bare не on the canonical NegQ most readily challenges the ascription event or the ACC Charge. Challenging the Target wants the на-phrase or the dative clitic already in the associate. Negation does not grow a double-object and does not create a с-frame, a за/върху blame cloth, or a MeasureP on ATT. HOLD is not cause-true — parallel to MERIT’s missing cause default and FIN’s missing payout default. MERIT itself is not given a Bulgarian page on this tick.
Unlike sell / payGIVE / chargeFEE / bet / creditFIN, attributeATT has no verbal MeasureP. There is therefore no Left-Branch Condition of the Amount-from-Denomination type on √ASCRIBE. Degrees that appear are DP-internal on Charge or on a light noun (приписване scout). Group C Polish GEN-neg on MeasureP does not rewrite Bulgarian ATT Charge as GEN.
✓ Кой приписа ранното завършване на изпълнителя?WH = Judge
✓ Какво приписаха на изпълнителя?WH = Charge · ACC
✓ На кого приписаха ранното завършване?WH = Target · на · productive
✓ Кому приписаха успеха?formal DAT WH · same Target slot · not a second argument
✓ Какво беше приписано на изпълнителя?passive · Charge promoted
✓ Каква част от закъснението приписаха на лошото време?degree on Charge · Abney-side, not verbal MeasureP
* Колко не приписаха на изпълнителя от завършването?no verbal MeasureP LBC host on ATT
✓ Cluster hypothesis: Кой какво приписа на изпълнителя?Group C multiple-WH fronting · not a ranked elicitation
✓ Приписаха закъснението на лошото време.weather = Target · fine
* Лошото време какво приписа на изпълнителя?weather still not Judge
The shared hierarchy ranks Judge > ACC Charge > DAT/на Target > outer. Bulgarian multiple-WH fronting is a packaging note on that hierarchy (Group C cluster), not a fourth sister and not an elicited superiority paradigm. There is no ranking of Charge against a silent Purpose, Price, or Theme₂. Cheap NegQ association tracks the focused Case object (Charge under ACC; Target under DAT clitic or на). Productive Target WH is на кого. Formal кому is the same slot.
DAT/на-Target ≠ Goal HAVE · Charge ≠ FIN MeasureP · ≠ blame ACC · ≠ отдавам-as-MERIT
DAT/на-Target = ascribee under HOLD — not sell Recipient HAVE, not allocate Goal with optional HAVE, not FIN wallet / Account. Charge = content of the attitude — not ledger Amount, not sell Price, not pay Consideration. Blame’s ACC is Target; ATT’s ACC is Charge. отдавам may share the ATT cloth and is still not a merit root and not a live MERIT page. Group C: Polish GEN-neg rewrites MeasureP of FIN/deduct; Bulgarian ATT keeps content association / no GEN on Charge. Same на letters can show up next to a ledger account — different object.
In Съветът приписа ранното завършване на изпълнителя, the board holds that the early completion is ascribable to the contractor. That is ascription, not HAVE of goods and not ledger INCREMENT. The early completion is Charge. The contractor is Target. HOLD is an attitude; cause-true is not a presupposed fact. Polarity is open — content-ascribe, not a meritorious default.
≠ blame / √ASCRIBE_FAULT (обвинявам / виня). Blame ascribes fault; attribute ascribes content (polarity open). Blame’s direct object is Target (обвинявам изпълнителя за закъснението; виня изпълнителя за закъснението). Attribute’s ACC is Charge (приписвам закъснението на изпълнителя). Blame’s за cloth is not a productive ATT frame.
≠ MERIT. Shared √ASCRIBE family can write positive / recognition polarity in other languages. Bulgarian has no live MERIT micro-entry. Do not invent credit-merit-bg.html. Do not import Hungarian elismer packaging, or any recognition light noun, as the default ATT cloth. Index 2 does not print a separate merit root on this line.
≠ отдавам deepened as MERIT.отдавам нещо на някого is the Index 2 companion and an alternate ascribe cloth (Съветът отдаде успеха на изпълнителя). Scout it. A “give away” reading of the same letters is not this ATT page and is not a FIN entry. Do not open a second sense page for отдавам on this tick.
≠ attributeXFER / creditFIN. Ledger MeasureP / Account is a different root (Съветът записа 0,3 ETH по сметката is a pointer, not an Index 2 Attitude citation). ATT has no MeasureP and no Account. Collapsing them because both can sit next to на / по is the error the lexical entry was written to block. XFER stays at attribute-xfer.html.
≠ English DOC / Transfer invert. There is no productive bare DOC with two ACC objects as the preferred ATT cloth. Clitic doubling is still one Target. Negation does not rescue a second ACC. Transfer Themes invert under swap NegQ; ATT Charge and Target do not.
≠ sell / ApplHAVE / allocateGOAL. No ApplHAVE, no Price MeasureP as verbal ATT cloth, no optional HAVE Goal. Surface на and the dative clitic on ATT are Target Case, not a Goal address with a MeasureP Theme.
Missing defaults. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed. Не приписаха ли ранното завършване на изпълнителя? is compatible with the contractor not in fact causing the early completion.
English twin spells to-frame Charge ACC / Target to. Spanish twin: Charge ACC / Target a. French twin: Charge ACC / Target à. Italian twin: Charge ACC / Target a. Mandarin twin: 把 Charge / 于 Target. Japanese twin: Charge o + Target ni. German twin: DAT Target + ACC Charge. Dutch twin: IO / aan-Target + ACC Charge. Norwegian twin: til-Target + ACC Charge. Hungarian twin: DAT Target (-nak/-nek) + ACC Charge; Focus+nem. Bulgarian twin: ACC Charge + DAT/на-Target; clitic doubling is one Target; light-noun приписване scout. Weather OK as Target, not as Judge. Document-metonymy Judge OK.
Shells, ApplP, and Case
Base tree (ascribe-content · Bulgarian clothes)
productive cloth (приписвамнещонанякого):
VoiceP [ JudgeNOM
vP / √ASCRIBE
ACC Charge
DAT / PP_на Target ] ← му/ѝ/им and/or на-PP; one Target
clitic doubling (still one Target):
DAT_clitic Target
PP_на Target ← not a DOC, not a second argument
*with-style (unavailable as productive ATT):
VoiceP [ JudgeNOM
vP / √ASCRIBE
ACC Target
PP_с / PP_за / PP_върху Charge ] ← * on attributeATT
Light-noun scout:
DP [ Poss/AGR ≈ Judge (на-phrase; not morphologically GEN)
N / приписванеN
(Charge-type content)
DAT / PP_на Target ] ← single на unresolved: Judge-possessor or Target
parallel to PL przypisanie GEN vs DAT — flag, do not rank
passive (promotes Charge):
VoiceP [ ChargeNOM
vP / √ASCRIBE
PP_на Target ]
Bulgarian ATT never assigns four structural Cases, and it does not assign a nominal dative ending. Charge is ACC. Target wears a pronominal dative and/or a на-PP (or lives inside a light-noun cloth). Doubling writes that one Target twice. No low ApplHAVE. No low ApplSWAP. No ApplTASK. No MeasureP (unless quantified-Charge hybrid — flag). High Appl / Affectee is extra when present and is not a listed argument of √ASCRIBE. отдавам is not a second root on this tree.
Composition is V(DP) on the ACC Charge. на-Target is a PP on the Abney spine of Target (same cut as Hungarian DAT / English to): V(DP), not a Path. Early completion does not travel a path; the contractor is not a Goal with HAVE rights. The dative clitic is a spell-out of that same Target, hosted before the finite verb when something precedes it (Съветът му приписа…) and after a verb-initial host (Приписаха му…). Clitic position is not a new argument.
Pronoun height: му / ѝ / им resume Target; го / я / ги can resume Charge. Inanimate Target is fine. Inanimate subject as Judge is not generated — that is the Voice filter, not a Case accident. Passive promotes Charge (беше приписано). It does not promote Target into a subject that still takes a bare ACC Charge.
Outer CAUSE wraps Voice. The causee, not the weather, is the Judge. Weather still fails as inner Judge under the wrap. There is no Neg-raising out of Charge.
Omission does not demote Charge to a pure adjunct. Selected Case layers are optional in the numeration; they are still arguments when present. The diagnostic is participanthood under Case, binding, and WH — not omitability. Charge clauses are islands in a way rationale adjuncts are not.
Outer cause · Voice filter survives
✓ Не накараха ли съвета да припише ранното завършване на изпълнителя?outer Neg denies causing · constructed
* Не накараха ли лошото време да припише закъснението на изпълнителя?weather still not inner Judge
* Изпълнителят беше приписан ранното завършване.passive does not promote Target
Attribute Group A Larson shells. Read as attributeATT (ascription). attributeXFER is a different root and is not this drawing. Bulgarian Group C clothes (ACC Charge + DAT/на-Target) sit on the same inventory; the Group C shell plate is cited in corpus, not re-embedded here.
Underivables (Bulgarian ATT)
* Лошото време приписа закъснението на изпълнителя?weather / inanimate as Judge
* Лошото време не приписа ли закъснението на някого?Voice filter survives Neg
* Не накараха ли лошото време да припише закъснението на изпълнителя?CAUSE wrap does not wash Voice filter
* Какво приписаха на изпълнителя успеха? as DOC under WH missing DOC under WH
* Съветът приписа изпълнителя с ранното завършване.no with-frame
* Колко не приписаха на изпълнителя от завършването?no verbal MeasureP LBC host on ATT
* Съветът приписа закъснението върху изпълнителя.no blame onto-cloth
* Съветът приписа изпълнителя за ранното завършване.no blame for-cloth
* Съветът размени изпълнителя за ранното завършване. as ascribe-content SWAP cloth ≠ ascribe-content
✓ weather as Target: Приписаха закъснението на лошото време.inanimate Target fine
✓ document Judge: Докладът приписа закъснението на авиокомпанията.metonymy Judge fine
Group C packaging · Bulgarian continues Inner European ATT
Group C (Hungarian, Bulgarian, Polish) is the Inner European Focus / cluster / GEN-neg contrast set already predicted for NegQ on blame / sell / bet / chargeFEE / credit. Same hierarchy as English attributeATT. Hungarian hosts Charge as ACC and Target as morphological DAT, with unique preverbal Focus and Focus+nem. Bulgarian hosts Charge as ACC and Target as pronominal DAT and/or на-PP. Multiple WH can front together (cluster hypothesis — not a ranked elicitation). There is no nominal GEN/DAT split: the light-noun на ambiguity is the Bulgarian reflex of the Polish przypisanie GEN (possessor / Judge) vs DAT (Target) note, and it is flagged rather than resolved. Polish GEN-neg on a MeasureP is a FIN/deduct fact and is not rewritten onto ATT Charge. This tick is Bulgarian only and continues the Group C set opened by attributeATT · tulajdonít. English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, German, Dutch, and Norwegian ATT twins are live. Polish attributeATT · przypisywać is live and closes the predicted Group C set (HU+BG+PL). FIN / XFER remains pointer-only. отдавам remains a scout on this page.
Open items
Light-noun приписване. Productivity vs bare приписвам is scout-leaning. Poss/AGR ≈ Judge and Target as DAT/на are the working split. A lone на-phrase is ambiguous in the way Polish przypisanie notes flag GEN vs DAT — Bulgarian does not spell those heads apart. Flagged, not ranked.
отдавам companion. Alternate ascribe cloth on the Index 2 line. Not deepened as MERIT and not given its own page. A transfer-ish “give away” reading is out of this ATT entry.
Quantified-Charge hybrid.приписа на изпълнителя 30 % от спестяванията — Charge recoded as a quantified share. Diagnostics: replaceable by ascribe, not by a ledger credit; weather can wear the на slot; the board can be wrong. Flagged, not deepened as verbal MeasureP on plain ATT.
MERIT. No credit-merit-bg.html. Prose pointer only. Do not invent a live link or a merit lemma on this page.
XFER / FIN. Stays at attribute-xfer.html. The ledger string on this page is a contrast pointer, not an Index 2 form and not a Bulgarian FIN micro-entry.
WH cluster ranking.Кой какво приписа на изпълнителя? is a Group C packaging hypothesis. It is not an elicited paradigm.
Polish Group C ATT. Live at attribute-att-pl.html (przypisywać; ACC Charge + DAT Target; closes Group C).
Navajo ATT. HANDLE packaging deferred; sell·Navajo also deferred.
Corpus filenames
Primary extract for this micro-entry is Lexical_Entry_Attribute_Argument_Structure (√ASCRIBE vs XFER; to-cloth; Voice filter). NegQ association maps from Negative_Questions_Attribute. Group A shell plate: Attribute_GroupA_Larson_Shells. Group C shell plate: Attribute_GroupC_Larson_Shells (chat 04 · HU Focus · BG cluster · PL GEN-neg). Chat packaging: Tritransitive chats 15 (NegQ on attribute · ATT vs XFER) and 26 (attribute argument-structure). Index 2 Bulgarian Attitude cites обвинявам / виня, приписвам / отдавам. Hungarian twin geometry shared with attribute-att-hu.html. Constructed BG frames diagnose packaging; they are not new elicitation. Polish przypisanie is the GEN vs DAT parallel, now live at attribute-att-pl.html — Bulgarian на still does not spell those heads apart.
Languages Index 2 does not list for this class are left off the table. Mandarin and Japanese ATT sit Beyond Index 2 (no Attitude ZH/JA cell) at attribute-att-zh.html and attribute-att-ja.html. Norwegian tilskrive is also Beyond Index 2.