attribute_ATT · atribuir

Hierarchy

Same inventory as English attribute_ATT, Mandarin 归因于, and Japanese 帰する. 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.

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 / charge_FEE / credit_FIN does not apply as a verbal diagnostic here.

What Group B changes is Case, clitics, and light-noun packaging. 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 attribute_ATT as Agent > Theme > Goal, collapsing it with MERIT because both can sit next to Spanish atribuir, or collapsing it with XFER/FIN because a can also mark 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.

Spanish frames · Case clothes

Romance packages ascribe-content without a productive DOC. Charge is the Case object; Target wears a. Cheap NegQ association and cheap WH track ACC = Charge. credit_MERIT advertises a with-style de/con flip and light-noun mérito; bare attribute_ATT keeps the to-style cloth — Charge ACC / a-Target — and does not advertise MERIT’s with-flip as productive ATT packaging. XFER / FIN use related surface letters for MeasureP / Account — different roots; pointer only below.

1. ✓ La junta atribuyó la finalización temprana al contratista. to-style · ACC Charge · a-Target
2. ✓ El informe atribuyó el retraso a la aerolínea. document-metonymy Judge · fine
3. ✓ Atribuyeron el retraso al clima. weather = Target OK
4. ✓ La finalización temprana fue atribuida al contratista. passive · Charge promoted
5. ✓ ¿No atribuyeron la finalización temprana al contratista? polar NegQ · to-style
6. ✓ Le atribuyeron el éxito. le = Target; Charge ACC
7. ✓ Light-noun scout: Hicieron una atribución del retraso al clima. atribución · scout ranking
8. ✓ Hybrid quantified Charge: La junta atribuyó el 30% del ahorro al contratista. quantified Charge · not XFER MeasureP
9. ✓ XFER / FIN pointer only: La junta atribuyó / acreditó 0,3 ETH a cada billetera. XFER / FIN · do not deepen
10. ✓ MERIT contrast (pointer): Los inversores reconocieron el mérito al contratista. MERIT light-noun · not bare ATT
11. ✓ blame contrast (pointer): El comité culpó al clima del retraso. blame · ACC = Target
12. * El clima atribuyó el retraso a la aerolínea. weather as Judge
13. * La junta atribuyó al contratista la finalización temprana. no productive DOC
14. * La junta atribuyó al contratista con la finalización temprana. no with-frame (unlike credit_MERIT)
15. * La junta atribuyó la finalización temprana en el contratista. no blame on-cloth / en-Target as Charge host
16. * La junta atribuyó al contratista por la finalización temprana. no blame for-cloth as productive ATT

A bare No on the canonical NegQ most readily challenges the ascription event or the ACC Charge. Challenging the a-Target wants that content already under discussion. Negation does not grow a double-object and does not create a with-frame or a MeasureP on ATT. HOLD is not cause-true — parallel to MERIT’s missing cause default and FIN’s missing payout default.

WH / NegQ diagnostics · no MeasureP LBC

Unlike sell / pay_GIVE / charge_FEE / bet / credit_FIN, attribute_ATT 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 (atribución scout).

1. ✓ ¿Quién atribuyó la finalización temprana al contratista? WH = Judge
2. ✓ ¿Qué atribuyó la junta al contratista? WH = Charge · to-style
3. ✓ ¿A quién atribuyó la junta la finalización temprana? WH = Target · a-cloth
4. ✓ ¿Qué fue atribuido al contratista? passive Charge
5. ✓ ¿Cuánto del retraso atribuyeron al clima? degree on Charge · Abney-side, not verbal MeasureP
6. * ¿Cuánto no atribuyeron de finalización al contratista? no verbal MeasureP LBC host on ATT
7. ✓ Atribuyeron el retraso al clima. weather = Target · fine
8. * ¿No hicieron atribuir el retraso al clima a la aerolínea? as weather-as-Judge under faire weather still not inner Judge

Superiority ranks Judge > ACC Charge > K-DP Target > outer. There is no ranking of Charge against a silent Purpose, Price, or Theme₂. Cheap NegQ association tracks the Case object (= Charge under the to-style cloth).

Geometry · attribute_ATT ≠ credit_MERIT ≠ culpar ≠ attribute_XFER ≠ sell

In La junta atribuyó la finalización temprana al contratista, 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 more neutral / content-ascribe than MERIT’s positive HOLD.

• ≠ credit_MERIT (acreditar / reconocer el mérito). Shared √ASCRIBE family and shared Voice filter; MERIT writes positive / meritorious polarity and advertises with-style de/con plus light-noun mérito. Bare atribuir Charge a Target is the Index 2 Attitude companion and the closest Romance attribute_ATT cloth — keep the split: do not import MERIT with-flip acceptability onto ATT. Live at credit-merit-es.html.
• ≠ blame / √ASCRIBE_FAULT (culpar). Blame ascribes fault; attribute ascribes content (polarity open). Blame’s ACC is typically Target (culpar al contratista del retraso); attribute’s ACC is Charge (atribuir el retraso al contratista). Blame has light-noun culpa on-geometry; ATT’s light-noun scout is atribución, not FAULT.
• ≠ attribute_XFER / credit_FIN. Same surface family of “atribuir / acreditar” talk when the ledger reading is chosen; different root. XFER / FIN write MeasureP TO a Domain / Account (La junta atribuyó / acreditó 0,3 ETH a cada billetera). ATT has no MeasureP and no Account. Collapsing them because both can sit next to Spanish a is the error the lexical entry was written to block. XFER stays at attribute-xfer.html; FIN ES at credit-fin-es.html — pointer only this tick for ledger strings.
• ≠ English DOC / Transfer invert. There is no productive bare DOC *atribuyeron al contratista la finalización temprana. Negation does not rescue it. Transfer Themes invert under Romance swap NegQ; ATT Charge and Target do not.
• ≠ sell / Appl_HAVE / allocate_GOAL. No Appl_HAVE, no por-Price MeasureP, no optional HAVE Goal. Surface a on ATT is Target wrapper-K, not Goal address with MeasureP Theme.
• Missing defaults. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed. ¿No atribuyeron la finalización temprana al contratista? is compatible with the contractor not in fact causing the early completion.

English twin spells to-frame Charge ACC / Target to. Mandarin twin: 把 Charge / 于 Target. Japanese twin: Charge o + Target ni. Spanish twin: to-style Charge ACC / Target a; light-noun atribución scout. Weather OK as Target, *not* as Judge. Document-metonymy Judge OK.

Shells, ApplP, and Case

to-style (atribuir Charge a Target):
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √ASCRIBE
    ACC               Charge
    PP_a              Target ]

*with-style (unavailable as productive ATT):
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √ASCRIBE
    ACC / a-marked    Target
    PP_con / PP_de    Charge ]   ← productive on creditMERIT; * on attributeATT

Light-noun scout:
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √HACER·ATRIBUIR
    ACC               la atribuciónN   (Charge-type / content)
    PP_a / de…a       Target ]

Spanish ATT never assigns four structural Cases. Charge is ACC; Target wears P. No low Appl_HAVE. No low Appl_SWAP. No Appl_TASK. No MeasureP (unless quantified-Charge hybrid — flag). High Appl / Affectee is extra when present and is not a listed argument of √ASCRIBE.

Composition is V(DP) on the ACC Charge. A is wrapper-K on the Abney spine (lexical entry §6.4; same cut as English attribute’s to / Spanish blame’s de): V(DP), not V(a(DP)). Early completion does not travel a path; the contractor is not a Goal with HAVE rights.

Clitic height: le resumes Target under many to-style strings; lo/la can resume Charge. Inanimate Target clitics are fine. Inanimate subject as Judge is not generated — that is the Voice filter, not a Case accident.

Outer CAUSE_G (hacer atribuir) wraps Voice. The causee, not the weather, is the Judge. *¿No hicieron atribuir el clima el retraso a la aerolínea? keeps the inner Voice filter. Type A climbing unions Voice domains; Charge stays content and never climbs as a dative MeasureP.

Omission does not demote Charge to a pure adjunct. Selected P-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; there is no Neg-raising out of Charge.

Underivables (Spanish ATT)

1. * El clima atribuyó el retraso a la aerolínea. weather / inanimate as Judge
2. * ¿No atribuyó el clima el retraso a nadie? Voice filter survives Neg
3. * ¿No hicieron atribuir el clima el retraso a la aerolínea? CAUSE_G wrap does not wash Voice filter
4. * La junta atribuyó al contratista la finalización temprana. no productive DOC
5. * ¿Qué atribuyó la junta al contratista la finalización? as DOC under WH missing DOC under WH
6. * La junta atribuyó al contratista con la finalización temprana. no with-frame
7. * ¿Cuánto no atribuyeron de finalización al contratista? no verbal MeasureP LBC host on ATT
8. * La junta atribuyó la finalización temprana en el contratista. no blame on-cloth
9. * Intercambiaron al contratista por la finalización temprana. as ascribe-content SWAP cloth ≠ ascribe-content
10. ✓ weather as Target: Atribuyeron el retraso al clima. inanimate Target fine
11. ✓ document Judge: El informe atribuyó el retraso a la aerolínea. metonymy Judge fine

Group B packaging · Spanish opens Romance ATT

Group B (Spanish, French, Italian) is the Romance Case-cloth contrast set already used for NegQ on blame / sell / bet / charge_FEE / credit_MERIT. Same hierarchy as English attribute_ATT; Target wears a-PP; Charge is ACC. Clitics resume Target; se demotion targets Voice. This tick is Spanish only and opens the Group B Romance ATT set. English, Mandarin, and Japanese twins are live at attribute-att.html, attribute-att-zh.html, and attribute-att-ja.html. French / Italian ATT micro-entries remain open (MERIT Romance twins already live and reuse attribuer / attribuire for praise packaging — keep ATT/MERIT split). Group C (HU Focus, PL GEN-neg) and Group D (DE zuschreiben vs gutschreiben) stay predicted or scout — not elicited here.

Open items

• Italian ATT micro-entry. Live at attribute-att-it.html (ACC Charge / a-Target; keep ATT/MERIT split). French ATT at attribute-att-fr.html.
• Light-noun atribución. Productivity vs bare atribuir is scout-leaning — flagged, not ranked.
• Quantified-Charge hybrid. atribuyó el 30% del ahorro al contratista — Charge recoded as quantified share. Diagnostics: replaceable by ascribe, not by wire / abonar; weather can wear the a-DP; the board can be wrong. Flagged, not deepened as verbal MeasureP on plain ATT.
• Type A hacer + attribute_ATT. Outer CAUSE wraps a Judge event. Outer Neg can be cheap on the causing; the inner Voice filter survives. Not a new elicitation.
• XFER / FIN Spanish. XFER remains at attribute-xfer.html; FIN ES live at credit-fin-es.html. Keep the split; do not merge pages.
• credit_MERIT with-frame contrast. Already live at credit-merit-es.html; do not import with-frame acceptability onto ATT.
• Bare atribuir vs MERIT light-noun overlap. Index 2 pairs culpar, atribuir. MERIT may use atribuir el mérito; ATT is bare content-ascribe. Keep split; do not collapse on this page.

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. Chat packaging: Tritransitive chats 15 (NegQ on attribute · ATT vs XFER) and 26 (attribute argument-structure). Romance Index 2 Attitude cites atribuir. Spanish blame / MERIT twin geometry shared with blame-es.html and credit-merit-es.html. Constructed ES frames diagnose packaging; they are not new elicitation.