attribute_ATT · attribuer

Hierarchy

Same inventory as English attribute_ATT, Spanish atribuir, 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 French attribuer, or collapsing it with XFER/FIN because à 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.

French frames · Case clothes

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

1. ✓ Le conseil a attribué l'achèvement anticipé au contractant. to-style · ACC Charge · à-Target
2. ✓ Le rapport a attribué le retard à la compagnie aérienne. document-metonymy Judge · fine
3. ✓ Ils ont attribué le retard au mauvais temps. weather = Target OK
4. ✓ L'achèvement anticipé a été attribué au contractant. passive · Charge promoted
5. ✓ N'ont-ils pas attribué l'achèvement anticipé au contractant ? polar NegQ · to-style
6. ✓ Ils lui ont attribué le succès. lui = Target; Charge ACC
7. ✓ Light-noun scout: Ils ont fait une attribution du retard au mauvais temps. attribution · scout ranking
8. ✓ Hybrid quantified Charge: Le conseil a attribué 30 % des économies au contractant. quantified Charge · not XFER MeasureP
9. ✓ XFER / FIN pointer only: Le conseil a crédité 0,3 ETH sur chaque portefeuille. FIN · créditer · do not deepen
10. ✓ MERIT contrast (pointer): Les investisseurs ont reconnu le mérite au contractant. MERIT light-noun · not bare ATT
11. ✓ blame contrast (pointer): Le comité a blâmé le mauvais temps pour le retard. blame · ACC = Target
12. * Le mauvais temps a attribué le retard à la compagnie aérienne. weather as Judge
13. * Le conseil a attribué au contractant l'achèvement anticipé. no productive DOC
14. * Le conseil a attribué le contractant avec l'achèvement anticipé. no with-frame (unlike credit_MERIT)
15. * Le conseil a attribué l'achèvement anticipé sur le contractant. no blame on-cloth / sur-Target as Charge host
16. * Le conseil a attribué le contractant pour l'achèvement anticipé. no blame for-cloth / MERIT with-flip as productive ATT

A bare Non on the canonical NegQ most readily challenges the ascription event or the ACC Charge. Challenging the à-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 (attribution scout).

1. ✓ Qui a attribué l'achèvement anticipé au contractant ? WH = Judge
2. ✓ Qu'a attribué le conseil au contractant ? WH = Charge · to-style
3. ✓ À qui le conseil a-t-il attribué l'achèvement anticipé ? WH = Target · à-cloth
4. ✓ Qu'a-t-on attribué au contractant ? passive / impersonal Charge
5. ✓ Combien du retard ont-ils attribué au mauvais temps ? degree on Charge · Abney-side, not verbal MeasureP
6. * Combien n'ont-ils pas attribué d'achèvement au contractant ? no verbal MeasureP LBC host on ATT
7. ✓ Ils ont attribué le retard au mauvais temps. weather = Target · fine
8. * N'ont-ils pas fait attribuer le retard au mauvais temps à la compagnie aérienne ? 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 ≠ blâmer ≠ attribute_XFER ≠ sell

In Le conseil a attribué l'achèvement anticipé au contractant, 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 (attribuer / reconnaître le mérite). Shared √ASCRIBE family, shared Voice filter, and shared surface letters on bare attribuer; MERIT writes positive / meritorious polarity and advertises with-style de/pour plus light-noun mérite. Bare attribuer Charge à 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-fr.html.
• ≠ blame / √ASCRIBE_FAULT (blâmer). Blame ascribes fault; attribute ascribes content (polarity open). Blame’s ACC is typically Target (blâmer le contractant pour le retard); attribute’s ACC is Charge (attribuer le retard au contractant). Blame has light-noun faute on-geometry; ATT’s light-noun scout is attribution, not FAULT.
• ≠ attribute_XFER / credit_FIN. French prefers créditer for ledger MeasureP / Account (Le conseil a crédité 0,3 ETH sur chaque portefeuille) — cleaner letter split than Spanish. ATT has no MeasureP and no Account. Collapsing them because both can sit next to French à is the error the lexical entry was written to block. XFER stays at attribute-xfer.html; FIN FR at credit-fin-fr.html — pointer only this tick for ledger strings.
• ≠ English DOC / Transfer invert. There is no productive bare DOC *ils ont attribué au contractant l'achèvement anticipé as the preferred ATT cloth. 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 pour-Price MeasureP, no optional HAVE Goal. Surface à on ATT is Target wrapper-K, not Goal address with MeasureP Theme.
• Missing defaults. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed. N'ont-ils pas attribué l'achèvement anticipé au contractant ? 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. Mandarin twin: 把 Charge / 于 Target. Japanese twin: Charge o + Target ni. French twin: to-style Charge ACC / Target à; light-noun attribution scout. Weather OK as Target, *not* as Judge. Document-metonymy Judge OK.

Shells, ApplP, and Case

to-style (attribuer Charge à Target):
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √ASCRIBE
    ACC               Charge
    PP_à              Target ]

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

Light-noun scout:
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √FAIRE·ATTRIBUER
    ACC               l'attributionN   (Charge-type / content)
    PP_à / de…à       Target ]

French 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. À 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(à(DP)). Early completion does not travel a path; the contractor is not a Goal with HAVE rights.

Clitic height: lui resumes Target under many to-style strings; le/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 (faire attribuer) wraps Voice. The causee, not the weather, is the Judge. *N'ont-ils pas fait attribuer le mauvais temps le retard à la compagnie aérienne ? 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 (French ATT)

1. * Le mauvais temps a attribué le retard à la compagnie aérienne. weather / inanimate as Judge
2. * Le mauvais temps n'a-t-il pas attribué le retard à personne ? Voice filter survives Neg
3. * N'ont-ils pas fait attribuer le mauvais temps le retard à la compagnie aérienne ? CAUSE_G wrap does not wash Voice filter
4. * Le conseil a attribué au contractant l'achèvement anticipé. no productive DOC
5. * Qu'a attribué le conseil au contractant l'achèvement ? as DOC under WH missing DOC under WH
6. * Le conseil a attribué le contractant avec l'achèvement anticipé. no with-frame
7. * Combien n'ont-ils pas attribué d'achèvement au contractant ? no verbal MeasureP LBC host on ATT
8. * Le conseil a attribué l'achèvement anticipé sur le contractant. no blame on-cloth
9. * Ils ont échangé le contractant contre l'achèvement anticipé. as ascribe-content SWAP cloth ≠ ascribe-content
10. ✓ weather as Target: Ils ont attribué le retard au mauvais temps. inanimate Target fine
11. ✓ document Judge: Le rapport a attribué le retard à la compagnie aérienne. metonymy Judge fine

Group B packaging · French continues 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 à-PP; Charge is ACC. Clitics resume Target; on/se demotion targets Voice. This tick is French only and continues the Group B Romance ATT set after Spanish. English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese twins are live at attribute-att.html, attribute-att-es.html, attribute-att-zh.html, and attribute-att-ja.html. Italian ATT micro-entry remains open (MERIT Romance twins already live and reuse 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).
• Light-noun attribution. Productivity vs bare attribuer is scout-leaning — flagged, not ranked.
• Quantified-Charge hybrid. a attribué 30 % des économies au contractant — Charge recoded as quantified share. Diagnostics: replaceable by ascribe, not by wire / créditer; weather can wear the à-DP; the board can be wrong. Flagged, not deepened as verbal MeasureP on plain ATT.
• Type A faire + 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 French. XFER remains at attribute-xfer.html; FIN FR live at credit-fin-fr.html. Keep the split; do not merge pages.
• credit_MERIT with-frame contrast. Already live at credit-merit-fr.html; do not import with-frame acceptability onto ATT.
• Bare attribuer vs MERIT light-noun overlap. Index 2 pairs blâmer, attribuer. MERIT may use attribuer le mérite; 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 attribuer. French blame / MERIT twin geometry shared with blame-fr.html and credit-merit-fr.html. Constructed FR frames diagnose packaging; they are not new elicitation.