Working paper · September 2026 · Hungarian micro-entry · Attitude / ascribe content · Index 2 · Group C Inner European
attributeATT · tulajdonít
Attitude / ascribe-content sense in Hungarian. Working name √ASCRIBE. Hierarchy Cognizer / Judge > Charge / Content > Target. Index 2 Hungarian Attitude cites hibáztat, okol, tulajdonít, elismer, jóváír — this page deepens bare tulajdonít as content-ascribe (Charge ACC + DAT Target; Focus+nem). Contrast MERIT pointer elismer (positive / recognition polarity; do not deepen MERIT this tick), blame / hibáztat / okol (fault polarity; ACC typically Target), and ledger attributeXFER / FIN pointer jóváír (MeasureP / Account — Group C named-root split). Light-noun tulajdonítás scout OK (AGR=Judge; DAT=Target). No DOC, no with-frame, no for/on, no MeasureP. Voice filter. Opens Group C HU ATT (DE opened Group D; Romance ATT closed).
Working paper.
Hungarian micro-entry opening the Group C Inner European ATT set on bare tulajdonít. Geometry from Lexical_Entry_Attribute_Argument_Structure and Group A Larson shells; NegQ / Focus maps from Negative_Questions_Attribute (chats 15 / 26) and Attribute Group C shell plate (chat 04). Index 2 Attitude cites tulajdonít beside blame / MERIT / FIN forms on one inventory line — this page deepens the ascribe-content reading. Constructed diagnostics diagnose the DAT-Target cloth (Charge ACC / DAT Target -nak/-nek), Hungarian Focus uniqueness + nem, missing with/DOC/for/on clothes, light-noun tulajdonítás scout (AGR=Judge; DAT=Target), and the ATT / MERIT / blame / XFER·FIN splits; they are not spontaneous-speech citations. English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, and German ATT twins already live; Navajo companions deferred; MERIT HU deferred.
Constructed examples.
Frames below are packaging hypotheses aligned with the lexical entry, Group A / Group C shell plates, NegQ Attribute paper, and Index 2 HU Attitude inventory. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed — same missing defaults as creditMERIT and blame. Do not fake elicitation. XFER / FIN strings (jóváír) and MERIT (elismer) appear only as contrast pointers.
Sense-class · ATT / MERIT / blame / XFER split (Index 2 five-lemma line).
Index 2 lists Hungarian Attitude as hibáztat, okol, tulajdonít, elismer, jóváír (Vols. 3, 6). This page deepens the ascribe-content reading of bare tulajdonít as √ASCRIBE (content / cause / authorship geometry; polarity open). MERIT pointer elismer writes positive / recognition polarity — do not deepen MERIT this tick. Blame / hibáztat / okol ascribes fault (ACC typically Target). Ledger / book-HAVE readings sit at attributeXFER / FIN pointer jóváír — Group C already names the roots. Keep the roots / polarities apart: bare ATT keeps DAT Target + ACC Charge as content-ascribe and does not import MERIT’s recognition packaging or FIN’s MeasureP as the default ATT cloth.
Scout / deferred.
Light-noun tulajdonítás productivity vs bare tulajdonít is scout-leaning (chat 15: a bizottság tulajdonítása … a vállalkozónak — AGR=Judge; DAT=Target). Relative ranking of bare content-ascribe vs MERIT elismer is flagged, not ranked. Bulgarian / Polish Group C companions and Navajo HANDLE packaging deferred. No fake elicitation.
Hierarchy
Same inventory as English attributeATT, Spanish atribuir, French attribuer, Italian attribuire, Mandarin 归因于, Japanese 帰する, and German zuschreiben. 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 · Hungarian cloth)
Voice introduces Judge (proto-Agent of the attitude). The ascription relates Charge to Target under HOLD. Hungarian spells the productive verbal cloth as ACC Charge (-t/-ot/-et/-öt) + DAT Target (-nak/-nek) — valakinek valamit tulajdonít. Light-noun a tulajdonítás parks content-type N with Target in dative; Poss-AGR on the event noun is Judge, not Target — scout (chat 15). 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. Group C FIN/deduct GEN-neg on MeasureP is a different object; ATT Charge under Focus+nem is content-Focus, not GEN-rewrite of a measuring QP.
What Group C changes is Focus uniqueness + nem association and the named MERIT/FIN root split on the Index 2 line. 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 MERIT because both sit on the Index 2 Attitude line, or collapsing it with XFER/FIN because dative can also mark Account under jóváír, 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.
Hungarian frames · Case clothes
Group C packages ascribe-content without a productive DOC. Productive cloth: Charge ACC with Target in dative (valakinek valamit tulajdonít). Cheap NegQ association and cheap WH track ACC = Charge under Focus+nem. MERIT pointer elismer advertises recognition polarity; bare attributeATT keeps the DAT+ACC cloth as content-ascribe. XFER / FIN use jóváír for MeasureP / Account — different root; pointer only below.
✓ A tanács a vállalkozónak a korai befejezést tulajdonította.DAT Target · ACC Charge · bare tulajdonít · content-ascribe
✓ A jelentés a késést a légitársaságnak tulajdonította.document-metonymy Judge · fine
✓ A késést a rossz időjárásnak tulajdonították.weather = Target OK
✓ A korai befejezést a vállalkozónak tulajdonították.impersonal / Charge promoted surface
✓ Nem a korai befejezést tulajdonították a vállalkozónak?Focus+nem · content-Focus (= Charge)
✓ Nem a vállalkozónak tulajdonították a korai befejezést?Focus+nem · Target-Focus · DAT
✓ Neki a sikert tulajdonították.neki = Target; Charge ACC
✓ Light-noun scout: A bizottság tulajdonítása a vállalkozónak vitatott volt.tulajdonítás · AGR=Judge · DAT=Target · scout
✓ Hybrid quantified Charge: A tanács a vállalkozónak a megtakarítások 30 %-át tulajdonította.quantified Charge · not XFER MeasureP
✓ XFER / FIN pointer only: A tanács minden számlának 0,3 ETH-t jóváírt.FIN · jóváír · do not deepen
✓ MERIT contrast (pointer): A befektetők elismerték a vállalkozó érdemeit.MERIT · elismer · not bare ATT · do not deepen
✓ blame contrast (pointer): A bizottság a vállalkozót hibáztatta a késésért.blame · ACC = Target · hibáztat
✓ blame contrast (pointer): A késésért a vállalkozót okolják.blame · ACC = Target · okol
* A rossz időjárás a vállalkozónak a késést tulajdonította?weather as Judge
* A vállalkozónak a korai befejezést a sikert tulajdonították?no productive DOC (bare double ACC)
* A vállalkozót a korai befejezéssel tulajdonították?no with-frame / instrumental Charge cloth as productive ATT
* A korai befejezést a vállalkozóra tulajdonították?no blame onto-cloth as Charge host for ATT
* A vállalkozót a korai befejezésért tulajdonították?no blame for-cloth as productive ATT
NegQ baseline · Focus+nem · association tracks content-Focus (= Charge) or Target-Focus
✓ Nem a korai befejezést tulajdonították a vállalkozónak?content-Focus · cheap = Charge ACC
✓ Nem a vállalkozónak tulajdonították a sikert?Target-Focus · DAT
✓ Tulajdonították a vállalkozónak a sikert?polar · no preverbal Focus
✓ XFER / FIN contrast (pointer): Nem 0,3 ETH-t írtak jóvá minden számlának?
* A rossz időjárás senkinek nem tulajdonította a késést?weather as Judge under Neg
* A vállalkozónak a befejezést a sikert nem tulajdonították?no Neg-rescued DOC
* A vállalkozót a korai befejezéssel nem tulajdonították?no Neg-rescued with-frame
# Nem a korai befejezést tulajdonították a vállalkozónak? — meaning the contractor didn’t cause it. cause-true not a default
A bare Nem on the canonical content-Focus NegQ most readily challenges the ascription event or the ACC Charge. Challenging the dative wants Target already under Focus. Focus uniqueness: one preverbal Focus host — A KÉSÉST or A VÁLLALKOZÓNAK, not both (chat 04). 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 · Focus+nem · no MeasureP LBC
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 (tulajdonítás scout). Group C FIN/deduct GEN-neg on MeasureP does not rewrite ATT Charge as GEN — ATT packages content-Focus / no GEN on Charge.
✓ Ki tulajdonította a vállalkozónak a korai befejezést?WH = Judge
✓ Mit tulajdonítottak a vállalkozónak?WH = Charge · ACC
✓ Kinek tulajdonították a korai befejezést?WH = Target · DAT
✓ Mit tulajdonítottak a vállalkozónak?Charge WH · impersonal
✓ A késés mekkora részét tulajdonították a rossz időjárásnak?degree on Charge · Abney-side, not verbal MeasureP
* Mennyit nem tulajdonítottak a vállalkozónak a befejezésből?no verbal MeasureP LBC host on ATT
✓ Focus uniqueness: A KÉSÉST tulajdonították a vállalkozónak.Charge Focus · one host
✓ Focus uniqueness: A VÁLLALKOZÓNAK tulajdonították a késést.Target Focus · one host
* A KÉSÉST A VÁLLALKOZÓNAK tulajdonították.Focus uniqueness · not both
✓ A késést a rossz időjárásnak tulajdonították.weather = Target · fine
* A rossz időjárással nem tulajdoníttatták a vállalkozónak a késést?weather still not inner Judge under causative wrap
Superiority ranks Judge > ACC Charge > DAT Target > outer. There is no ranking of Charge against a silent Purpose, Price, or Theme₂. Cheap NegQ association under Focus+nem tracks the focused Case object (Charge under content-Focus; Target under DAT Focus).
DAT Target ≠ Goal HAVE · Charge ≠ FIN MeasureP · ≠ MERIT elismer · no GEN on Charge
DAT 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, and not MERIT’s recognition packaging as the default ATT cloth. Group C: Polish GEN-neg rewrites MeasureP of FIN/deduct; Hungarian ATT keeps content-Focus / no GEN on Charge. Same Case letters as FIN Recipient DAT under jóváír — different root, different object.
In A tanács a vállalkozónak a korai befejezést tulajdonította, 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 via elismer.
≠ creditMERIT (elismer). Shared √ASCRIBE family and shared Voice filter on the Index 2 Attitude line; MERIT writes positive / recognition polarity. Bare tulajdonít Charge DAT Target is the Index 2 Attitude companion and the closest Group C attributeATT cloth — keep the split: do not import MERIT elismer acceptability onto ATT as the default packaging. MERIT HU now live at credit-merit-hu.html — keep ATT/MERIT split.
≠ blame / √ASCRIBE_FAULT (hibáztat / okol). Blame ascribes fault; attribute ascribes content (polarity open). Blame’s ACC is typically Target (a vállalkozót hibáztatni a késésért); attribute’s ACC is Charge (a késést a vállalkozónak tulajdonítani). Blame has light-noun / fault geometry; ATT’s light-noun scout is tulajdonítás, not FAULT.
≠ attributeXFER / creditFIN. Group C prefers jóváír for ledger MeasureP / Account (A tanács minden számlának 0,3 ETH-t jóváírt) — named-root split already on the Index 2 line. ATT has no MeasureP and no Account. Collapsing them because both can sit next to Hungarian dative is the error the lexical entry was written to block. XFER stays at attribute-xfer.html — pointer only this tick for ledger strings.
≠ English DOC / Transfer invert. There is no productive bare DOC with two ACC objects as the preferred ATT cloth. Negation / Focus does not rescue it. Transfer Themes invert under swap NegQ; ATT Charge and Target do not.
≠ sell / ApplHAVE / allocateGOAL. No ApplHAVE, no ért-Price MeasureP as verbal ATT cloth, no optional HAVE Goal. Surface dative on ATT is Target Case, not Goal address with MeasureP Theme.
Missing defaults. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed. Nem a korai befejezést tulajdonították a vállalkozónak? 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 (jmdm. etw. zuschreiben). Hungarian twin: DAT Target (-nak/-nek) + ACC Charge; Focus+nem; light-noun tulajdonítás scout. Weather OK as Target, *not* as Judge. Document-metonymy Judge OK.
Shells, ApplP, and Case
Base tree (ascribe-content · Hungarian clothes)
productive cloth (valakinek valamit tulajdonít):
VoiceP [ JudgeNOM
vP / √ASCRIBE
ACC Charge
DAT (-nak/-nek) Target ]
Focus field (one host · not Spec,T):
[FocusP ChargeFOC / TargetFOC · *both ]
NegQ associates under Focus+nem
*with-style (unavailable as productive ATT):
VoiceP [ JudgeNOM
vP / √ASCRIBE
ACC Target
INS / ért-PP Charge ] ← productive on some blame / MERIT companions; * on attributeATT
Light-noun scout:
VoiceP / DP [ JudgeAGR on N (Poss-AGR ≠ verbal DAT)
N / tulajdonításN
(Charge-type content)
DAT Target ] ← verbal -nak = Target; Poss -nak on event N = Judge AGR — two heads (chat 15)
Hungarian ATT never assigns four structural Cases. Charge is ACC; Target wears DAT (or lives inside a light-noun cloth). 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. Focus is one host, not a second subject (chat 04).
Composition is V(DP) on the ACC Charge. Dative Target is structural/oblique Case on the Abney spine of Target (same cut as English to / Romance a/à / German DAT): V(DP), not V(nak(DP)). Early completion does not travel a path; the contractor is not a Goal with HAVE rights.
Pronoun height: neki/nekik resumes Target under many productive strings; ACC pronouns can resume Charge. Inanimate Target is fine. Inanimate subject as Judge is not generated — that is the Voice filter, not a Case accident.
Outer CAUSE wraps Voice. The causee, not the weather, is the Judge. Weather still fails as inner Judge under the wrap. 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 Case layers are optional in the numeration; they are still arguments when present. The diagnostic is participanthood under Case, binding, Focus, and WH — not omitability. Charge clauses are islands in a way rationale adjuncts are not; there is no Neg-raising out of Charge.
Type A · causative wrap
✓ Nem a bizottsággal tulajdoníttatták a korai befejezést a vállalkozónak?outer Neg denies causing · constructed
* A rossz időjárással nem tulajdoníttatták a vállalkozónak a késést?weather still not inner Judge
Attribute Group A Larson shells. Read as attributeATT (ascription). attributeXFER is a different root and is not this drawing. Hungarian Group C clothes (DAT Target + Focus+nem) sit on the same inventory; the Group C shell plate is cited in corpus, not re-embedded here.
Underivables (Hungarian ATT)
* A rossz időjárás a vállalkozónak a késést tulajdonította?weather / inanimate as Judge
* A rossz időjárás senkinek nem tulajdonította a késést?Voice filter survives Neg
* A rossz időjárással nem tulajdoníttatták a vállalkozónak a késést?CAUSE wrap does not wash Voice filter
* A vállalkozónak a befejezést a sikert tulajdonították?no productive DOC
* Mit tulajdonítottak a vállalkozónak a befejezést? as DOC under WH missing DOC under WH
* A vállalkozót a korai befejezéssel tulajdonították?no with-frame
* Mennyit nem tulajdonítottak a vállalkozónak a befejezésből?no verbal MeasureP LBC host on ATT
* A korai befejezést a vállalkozóra tulajdonították?no blame onto-cloth
* A KÉSÉST A VÁLLALKOZÓNAK tulajdonították.Focus uniqueness · not both hosts
* A vállalkozót a korai befejezésért cserélték? as ascribe-content SWAP cloth ≠ ascribe-content
✓ weather as Target: A késést a rossz időjárásnak tulajdonították.inanimate Target fine
✓ document Judge: A jelentés a késést a légitársaságnak tulajdonította.metonymy Judge fine
Group C packaging · Hungarian opens 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 DAT, with unique preverbal Focus and Focus+nem NegQ. Content-Focus / no GEN on Charge contrasts MeasureP GEN-neg on FIN/deduct (Polish) — packaging on listed hosts, not a fourth sister. Pronouns resume Target; Focus demotion targets information structure, not a second Spec,T. This tick is Hungarian only and opens the Group C HU ATT set on bare tulajdonít (MERIT HU elismer deferred; keep ATT/MERIT split). English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, and German ATT twins are live (Romance ATT closed; Group D ATT opened on DE). Bulgarian / Polish ascribe companions stay predicted or scout — not elicited here. FIN HU jóváír remains pointer-only.
Open items
Light-noun tulajdonítás. Productivity vs bare tulajdonít is scout-leaning — chat 15 AGR=Judge / DAT=Target split flagged, not ranked.
Quantified-Charge hybrid.a vállalkozónak a megtakarítások 30 %-át tulajdonította — Charge recoded as quantified share. Diagnostics: replaceable by ascribe, not by wire / jóváír; weather can wear the DAT; the board can be wrong. Flagged, not deepened as verbal MeasureP on plain ATT.
Type A causative + attributeATT. 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 Hungarian. XFER remains at attribute-xfer.html; FIN HU ledger jóváír remains a later tick. Keep the split; do not merge pages.
creditMERITelismer contrast. Pointer only this tick; do not deepen MERIT HU here. Prefer as a following-tick candidate.
Bare tulajdonít vs Index 2 five-lemma line. Index 2 pairs ATT with blame / MERIT / FIN forms. Keep split; do not collapse on this page.
Bulgarian / Polish Group C ATT. Predicted companions (BG приписвам / PL przypisywać) deferred.
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 uniqueness · Charge -t / Target -nak). Chat packaging: Tritransitive chats 15 (NegQ on attribute · ATT vs XFER · light-noun tulajdonítás AGR=Judge) and 26 (attribute argument-structure). Index 2 Hungarian Attitude cites hibáztat, okol, tulajdonít, elismer, jóváír. Constructed HU frames diagnose packaging; they are not new elicitation.
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.