attribute_ATT · 帰する / 帰属 (kisuru / kizoku)

Hierarchy

Same inventory as English attribute_ATT and Mandarin attribute_ATT · ZH. 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 verbal object. Hybrid strings like “30% of the savings” are quantified Charge of ATT, not XFER MeasureP — replaceable by ascribe, not by wire. Degrees that sneak in live on the Abney spine of Charge or of a light noun — Left Branch Condition for sell / pay / charge_FEE does not apply as a verbal diagnostic here. Floating counters under negation that split N from Num+# (MeasureP_Japanese_Counters) are irrelevant as verbal MeasureP on ATT.

What Group A Japanese changes is particle cloth (ACC Charge, ni Target; Double-o unused). 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. There is no productive DOC of Charge+Target as two bare Themes. There is no with-frame and no for/on alternation (unlike blame).

Japanese frames · Case clothes

Japanese packages attribute_ATT without a productive DOC. Under primary 帰する, Charge is ACC (o); Target sits in ni. NegQ under -nakatta ka tracks the Case object — ACC Charge. Companion 帰属する keeps Target in ni (often with Charge as subject / topic of a belonging-ascribe reading — scout ranking). Scout-leaning: relative productivity of 帰属する vs 帰する; keep せいにする / 責める split (blame ACC = Target).

1. ✓ 理事会は早期完成を請負業者に帰した。 canonical · ACC Charge · ni Target
2. ✓ 理事会は遅延を天候に帰した。 weather = Target · fine
3. ✓ 報告は遅延を航空会社に帰した。 document-metonymy Judge · fine
4. ✓ 彼らは早期完成を請負業者に帰さなかったのか。 NegQ · ACC Charge
5. ✓ 早期完成は請負業者に帰属する。 帰属する companion · scout ranking
6. ✓ 遅延は天候に帰された。 passive fronts Charge · Voice, not Spec,T
7. ✓ Hybrid quantified Charge: 理事会は節約の三割を請負業者に帰した。 quantified Charge · not XFER MeasureP
8. ✓ MERIT neighbor pointer: 早期完成を請負業者に功績として認めた。 credit_MERIT · same seats · polarity lean
9. ✓ Blame contrast: 委員会は悪天候を遅延のせいで責めた。 blame · ACC = Target · contrast
10. * 天気は遅延を航空会社に帰さなかったのか。 weather as Judge
11. * 理事会は請負業者を早期完成を帰した。 as DOC of Target+Charge no productive DOC · Double-o unused
12. * 理事会は早期完成で請負業者を帰した。 as with-frame / blame cloth no with-frame · ACC is Charge, not Target
13. * 各代理人に 0.3 ETH を帰した。 as ATT on ledger QP XFER/FIN MeasureP · 計上 / 付与 / credit_FIN

WH / NegQ diagnostics · no MeasureP LBC

Unlike sell / pay_GIVE / charge_FEE / bet / deduct / attribute_XFER / 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 (hybrid “30% of savings” = quantified Charge).

1. ✓ 誰が遅延を天候に帰さなかったのか。 WH = Judge
2. ✓ 何を天候に帰さなかったのか。 WH = Charge
3. ✓ 誰に遅延を帰さなかったのか。 WH = Target
4. ✓ 節約のどれだけを請負業者に帰さなかったのか。 degree on Charge DP · Abney-side · not verbal MeasureP
5. ✓ 天候に帰さなかったのか。 weather = Target · fine
6. * いくら天候に帰さなかったのか。 as verbal MeasureP LBC no verbal MeasureP LBC host on ATT
7. * 天気に航空会社へ遅延を帰させなかったのか。 as weather-Judge under 〜させる weather cannot be Judge under WH / sase either
8. * 理事会は請負業者を早期完成を帰さなかったのか。 as DOC of Target+Charge no Neg-rescued DOC · Double-o
9. * 請負業者が早期完成を帰された。 as Target-promoting passive passive promotes Charge, not Target

Superiority ranks Judge > Charge > Target. It does not rank Charge against a silent Purpose, Price, or Theme₂. Cheap NegQ association tracks the Case object of the cloth: Charge under …を…に帰する. Target sits inside ni and is marked for cheap association — same as English to-Target / Mandarin 于-Target under NegQ.

Geometry · 帰する ≠ 責める ≠ 功績を認める-as-MERIT ≠ 計上 ≠ Transfer

In 理事会は早期完成を請負業者に帰した, the board holds that the contractor is the source/cause/author of the early completion. That is ascription, not HAVE of goods and not SWAP of Themes. Early completion is Charge. Contractor is Target. HOLD is an attitude; SOURCE(Target, Charge) is content, not a presupposed fact.

• ≠ English DOC / Transfer invert. There is no productive *理事会は請負業者を早期完成を帰した as two bare Themes. Double-o is unused — same ban as other JA pages (sell, pay, deduct, credit, blame). Negation does not rescue it. Transfer Themes invert under Romance NegQ; attribute_ATT Charge and Target do not at Transfer cost.
• ≠ blame packaging merge. Shared family (ascribe content) and shared Voice filter; blame writes FAULT polarity with ACC = Target (悪天候を遅延のせいで責める / …のせいにする). attribute_ATT writes general ASCRIBE with ACC = Charge (遅延を天候に帰する). Keep the Case-object split; do not collapse to blame-ja.
• ≠ credit_MERIT polarity merge. Shared Case seats (ACC Charge / ni Target) and shared particle spelling with credit-merit-ja.html; MERIT writes positive / meritorious HOLD (功績を認める). ATT is general ascribe — 帰する can lean merit in discourse when listed as MERIT companion, but this page keeps the general √ASCRIBE reading. English MERIT has a with-frame that can put Target in ACC; Japanese ATT / MERIT default keeps Charge ACC — Target never becomes Spec,T.
• ≠ attribute_XFER / credit_FIN. Japanese already splits: ATT 帰する / 帰属 vs XFER/FIN 計上する / 付与する / 入金する. XFER / FIN take MeasureP ⟨n,U⟩ and write book-HAVE; ATT takes Charge and writes ASCRIBE. Hybrid “30% of savings” stays ATT. Live contrasts: attribute-xfer.html, credit-fin-ja.html.
• ≠ charge_ACCUSE / 告発. Legal / speech-act overlays stay on charge_ACCUSE. On attribute_ATT, ACC fronts Charge — different cloth.
• Missing defaults. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed. 遅延を天候に帰さなかったのか is compatible with the weather not in fact causing the delay.

English twin pointer (shallow stub): Charge as object, Target as to-PP; no DOC / with / for / on. Mandarin twin: 把 Charge 归因于 Target. Spanish / French / Italian Index 2 atribuir / attribuer / attribuire often keep one verb for ATT and XFER — need the inner-relation split even more. Japanese already splits (帰する vs 計上する). Weather OK as Target, *not* as Judge.

Shells, ApplP, and Case

VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √ASCRIBE
    ACC / o-marked    Charge   (帰する / 帰属-frame)
    PP_ni             Target   (請負業者に · wrapper-K, not Path P)
]

Passive-ish:
  Charge fronts under れる/られる — Voice, not Spec,T
  Target never sat in ACC → Target does not promote
  Topic ≠ Spec,T

Double-o unused:
  *請負業者を早期完成を帰した — no DOC

Japanese attribute_ATT never assigns four structural Cases. Charge is the ACC (o) object; Target is inside ni (chat 26 §6.4: the DP is the argument; to/ni/于 is a wrapper it wears — composition V(DP), not V(to(DP))). No low Appl_HAVE. No low Appl_SWAP. No Appl_TASK. No MeasureP. No with-flip. High Appl / Affectee is extra when present and is not a listed argument of √ASCRIBE.

Outer CAUSE_G (〜させる) wraps Voice — Type A. The causee, not the weather, is the Judge. Topic is not Spec,T. Passive-ish fronts Charge.

Omission does not demote Target to a pure adjunct. Selected K-layers are optional in the numeration; they are still arguments when present. The diagnostic is participanthood under Case, binding, and WH — not omitability.

Underivables (Japanese)

1. * 天気は遅延を航空会社に帰さなかったのか。 weather / inanimate as Judge
2. * 上司は天気に遅延を航空会社に帰させなかったのか。 〜させる does not wash Voice filter
3. * 理事会は請負業者を早期完成を帰した。 as DOC of Target+Charge no productive DOC · Double-o
4. * 理事会は早期完成で請負業者を帰した。 no with-frame / blame ACC-Target cloth
5. * いくら天候に帰さなかったのか。 no verbal MeasureP LBC on ATT
6. * 理事会は天候と遅延を交換した。 as ATT SWAP SWAP cloth ≠ ascribe
7. * 各代理人に 0.3 ETH を帰した。 as ATT XFER/FIN MeasureP ≠ Charge of ATT
8. * 請負業者が早期完成を帰された。 Target does not promote · no DOC
9. ✓ weather as Target: 遅延を天候に帰した。 inanimate Target fine
10. ✓ document as Judge: 報告は遅延を航空会社に帰した。 metonymy OK

Group A packaging · this tick Japanese twin after Mandarin

Group A (English clothes, Japanese 帰する / 帰属, Mandarin 把, Navajo scout) is the packaging contrast set already used for NegQ on attribute. Same hierarchy as English; different host of Charge Case and Target wrapper spelling. Japanese: ACC Charge 帰する ni Target; Double-o unused; companion 帰属する scout. This tick is Japanese only — second Done language for lemma attribute_ATT (VERB_COUNT stays 10; Mandarin opened the lemma). Mandarin twin live at attribute-att-zh.html. English remains the shallow stub at attribute-att.html (not deepened this tick). Navajo classificatory packaging remains deferred — do not invent depth this tick. Group B Romance and Group C (HU Focus, PL GEN-neg) stay on their twin pages / predictions.

Open items

• English stub deepen. attribute-att.html is shallow (hierarchy + a few frames; no working-paper flags / shells depth). Deepen in a later tick — not this one.
• 帰属する productivity. Listed as companion; relative naturalness vs 帰する, and belonging vs ascribe discourse lean, needs controlled elicitation — flagged scout-leaning, not closed.
• MERIT / ATT 帰する boundary. credit-merit-ja lists 帰する as MERIT companion; this page keeps general √ASCRIBE. Polarity / light-noun ranking needs elicitation — do not invent a forced split beyond Case seats shared with MERIT.
• blame せいにする vs ATT. Keep ACC-object split (blame Target vs ATT Charge). Boundary of fault-leaning discourse is scout where extracts list forms without ranking.
• Navajo micro-entry. Same Group A geometry; HANDLE / classificatory packaging. Deferred — do not invent depth this tick.
• Group C packaging. Hungarian Focus+nem, Polish GEN-neg predictions remain scout / predicted. No fake elicitation.
• XFER / FIN contrast. Keep attribute-xfer and credit-fin-ja as contrast only — MeasureP object under NegQ. Do not merge roots.

Corpus filenames

Primary extract for this micro-entry is Group A Japanese packaging on attribute (predicted 帰する / 帰属 vs XFER 計上 / 付与; chats 15 and 26; lexical ATT vs XFER split). Geometry is shared with the English lexical entry and the Mandarin twin. Case-cloth parallel: Japanese ACC vs ni already used on credit MERIT NegQ (chat 23). Plate: Attribute_GroupA_Larson_Shells. INDEX2 Attitude cell absent for JA.