Working paper · October 2026 · Polish micro-entry · Attitude / ascribe content · Index 2 · Group C Inner European
attributeATT · przypisywać
Attitude / ascribe-content sense in Polish. Working name √ASCRIBE. Hierarchy Cognizer / Judge > Charge / Content > Target. Index 2 Polish Attitude cites obwiniać / winić, przypisywać — this page deepens bare przypisywać as content-ascribe. Productive cloth: ACC Charge + DAT Target (przypisywać coś komuś; Slavic DAT Target + ACC Charge, parallel to Bulgarian ACC Charge + DAT/на-Target and Hungarian DAT Target + ACC Charge). Eventive frames below use perfective przypisać for a completed ascription; that is the same root, not a second sense. Light-noun przypisanie scout: GEN (possessor / Judge) vs DAT (Target) is spelled apart where the noun distinguishes the heads (rady vs radzie); Bulgarian приписване uses ambiguous на. Residual GEN/DAT syncretism (wykonawcy) is flagged, not ranked. Contrast blame · obwiniać / winić (ACC typically Target; companion oskarżać). MERIT has no credit-merit-pl.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. Polish GEN-neg rewrites MeasureP of FIN/deduct; it does not rewrite ATT Charge as GEN. Voice filter. Cause-true is not entailed. Continues Group C after attributeATT · tulajdonít and attributeATT · приписвам, and closes Group C ATT for the predicted set (HU+BG+PL).
Working paper.
Polish micro-entry closing the Group C Inner European ATT set after Hungarian tulajdonít and Bulgarian приписвам. 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: PL GEN-neg beside HU Focus and BG cluster). Index 2 Attitude prints obwiniać / winić, przypisywać on one line — this page deepens the ascribe-content reading of przypisywać. Constructed diagnostics diagnose ACC Charge + DAT Target, missing with/DOC/za/na clothes, light-noun przypisanie (GEN vs DAT spelled apart), and the ATT / blame / MERIT / 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, Norwegian, and Bulgarian ATT twins already live. There is no Polish MERIT page. 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 and Bulgarian ATT twins. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed — same missing defaults as creditMERIT and blame. Do not fake elicitation. Completed-event strings use perfective przypisać; the Index 2 lemma remains imperfective przypisywać. XFER / FIN ledger strings appear only as contrast pointers and are not Index 2 Attitude forms.
Sense-class · ATT / blame / MERIT / XFER split (Index 2 line).
Index 2 lists Polish Attitude as obwiniać / winić, przypisywać (Vols. 3, 6). This page deepens the ascribe-content reading of bare przypisywać as √ASCRIBE (content / cause / authorship geometry; polarity open). Blame obwiniać / winić, and the contrast pair oskarżać / winić, ascribe fault (ACC typically Target) — live at blame-pl.html. No credit-merit-pl.html exists; do not invent that link or a merit lemma. Ledger / book-HAVE readings sit at attributeXFER and a FIN MeasureP / Account pointer only. Bare ATT keeps ACC Charge + DAT Target as content-ascribe.
Scout / deferred.
Light-noun przypisanie is scout-leaning. Where the paradigm splits the heads, GEN = possessor / Judge and DAT = Target (przypisanie rady vs przypisanie radzie). Bulgarian на cannot spell that split. A syncretic form (wykonawcy = GEN or DAT) keeps the ambiguity — flag it, do not rank it. GEN-neg on a FIN/deduct MeasureP is a different object. 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, Norwegian tilskrive, and Bulgarian приписвам. 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 · Polish cloth)
Voice introduces Judge (proto-Agent of the attitude). The ascription relates Charge to Target under HOLD. Polish spells the productive cloth as ACC Charge + DAT Target — przypisywać coś komuś. Morphological dative on the noun is real here (unlike Bulgarian, where nominal case is gone and на plus a pronominal slot spells “DAT”). Weak pronouns mu / jej / im are that same Target, not a doubled copy and not a DOC. Light-noun przypisanie parks Charge-type content in GEN and Target in DAT; a distinct GEN on the event noun is the possessor / 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. Group C Polish GEN-neg rewrites MeasureP of FIN/deduct. It does not rewrite ATT Charge as GEN. ATT Charge under nie is content association. The accusative string in the NegQ diagnostic is the working-paper packaging; it is not an elicited denial that other Polish accusatives take genitive of negation.
What Group C changes for Polish is morphological DAT on Target, the GEN/DAT split on przypisanie, and multiple-WH fronting as an open packaging flag. 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, inventing a merit page, 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.
Polish frames · Case clothes
Group C packages ascribe-content without a productive DOC. Productive cloth: Charge ACC, Target DAT (przypisywać coś komuś). Cheap NegQ association and cheap WH track ACC = Charge or the DAT Target. Blame keeps ACC on Target (obwiniać / winić; contrast oskarżać). XFER / FIN ledger strings are pointers only. There is no Polish clitic doubling: mu is the Target, not a second writing of it.
✓ Rada przypisuje wczesne ukończenie wykonawcy.ipfv lemma · DAT Target · ACC Charge · content-ascribe
✓ Rada przypisała wczesne ukończenie wykonawcy.pfv przypisać · same root · not a second sense
✓ Raport przypisał opóźnienie linii lotniczej.document-metonymy Judge · fine
✓ Przypisali opóźnienie złej pogodzie.weather = Target OK · 3pl
✓ Wczesne ukończenie zostało przypisane wykonawcy.passive promotes Charge · DAT Target
✓ Czy nie przypisali wczesne ukończenie wykonawcy?nie · association tracks Charge (ACC) · do not rewrite ATT Charge as GEN
✓ Czy nie firmie przypisali sukces?nie · Target-focus · DAT firmie unambiguous
✓ Przypisali mu sukces.mu = DAT Target · Charge ACC · not doubling
✓ Przypisali go firmie.go resumes ACC Charge · one of each argument
✓ Light-noun scout: Przypisanie rady zostało zakwestionowane.GEN rady = Judge · spelled apart from DAT radzie
✓ Light-noun scout: Przypisanie radzie zostało zakwestionowane.DAT radzie = Target · spelled apart from GEN rady
✓ Light-noun scout: Przypisanie sukcesu firmie zostało zakwestionowane.GEN Charge + DAT Target · przypisanie
# Przypisanie wykonawcy zostało zakwestionowane.wykonawcy syncretic GEN/DAT · Judge-possessor or Target · do not rank
✓ Hybrid quantified Charge: Rada przypisała wykonawcy 30 % oszczędności.quantified Charge · not XFER MeasureP
✓ XFER / FIN pointer only: Rada zapisała 0,3 ETH na rachunku.ledger · not Index 2 · do not deepen
* Rada przypisała wykonawcy wczesne ukończenie sukces.no second ACC Charge
* Rada przypisała wykonawcę z wczesnym ukończeniem.no with-frame / z+INS as productive ATT
* Rada przypisała opóźnienie na wykonawcę.no blame onto-cloth (na+ACC) as productive ATT
* Rada przypisała wykonawcę za wczesne ukończenie.no blame for-cloth (za) as productive ATT
NegQ baseline · czy nie · association tracks Charge (ACC) or Target
✓ Czy nie przypisali wczesne ukończenie wykonawcy?cheap = Charge ACC · ATT Charge not rewritten as GEN
✓ Czy nie jemu przypisali sukces?DAT pronoun = Target
✓ Czy przypisali sukces wykonawcy?polar czy · no contrastive focus
# Czy nie przypisali wczesnego ukończenia wykonawcy?GEN on Charge would import FIN/deduct GEN-neg · do not rewrite ATT Charge · not ranked elicitation
✓ XFER / FIN contrast (pointer): Czy nie zapisali 0,3 ETH na rachunku?
* Zła pogoda nie przypisała opóźnienie komuś?weather as Judge under Neg
* Czy nie przypisali wykonawcy ukończenie sukces?no Neg-rescued DOC
* Czy nie przypisali wykonawcę z wczesnym ukończeniem?no Neg-rescued with-frame
# Czy nie przypisali wczesne ukończenie wykonawcy? — meaning the contractor didn’t cause it. cause-true not a default
A bare nie on the canonical NegQ most readily challenges the ascription event or the ACC Charge. Challenging the Target wants the dative already in the associate (firmie, jemu). Negation does not grow a double-object and does not create a z-frame, a za/na 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 Polish page on this tick. Ordinary genitive of negation on other accusatives is a different object; this page does not recruit it onto ATT Charge and does not pretend to have elicited it.
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 (przypisanie scout). Group C Polish GEN-neg on MeasureP does not rewrite ATT Charge as GEN.
✓ Kto przypisał wczesne ukończenie wykonawcy?WH = Judge
✓ Co przypisała rada wykonawcy?WH = Charge · ACC · rada disambiguates the dative
✓ Komu przypisali wczesne ukończenie?WH = Target · DAT komu · productive
✓ Co zostało przypisane wykonawcy?passive · Charge promoted
✓ Co przypisano wykonawcy?-no impersonal · Charge WH · not a new argument
✓ Jaką część opóźnienia przypisali złej pogodzie?degree on Charge · Abney-side, not verbal MeasureP
* Ile nie przypisano wykonawcy z ukończenia?no verbal MeasureP LBC host on ATT
✓ Cluster hypothesis: Kto co przypisał wykonawcy?Group C multiple-WH fronting · not a ranked elicitation
✓ Cluster hypothesis: Kto komu co przypisał?fuller cluster · open flag · not ranked
✓ Przypisali opóźnienie złej pogodzie.weather = Target · fine
* Zła pogoda co przypisała wykonawcy?weather still not Judge
The shared hierarchy ranks Judge > ACC Charge > DAT Target > outer. Polish 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). Productive Target WH is komu.
DAT Target ≠ Goal HAVE · Charge ≠ FIN MeasureP · ≠ blame ACC · ≠ merit root
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. Blame’s ACC is Target (obwiniać / winić; contrast oskarżać); ATT’s ACC is Charge. Index 2 does not print a Polish merit root; do not invent one. Group C: Polish GEN-neg rewrites MeasureP of FIN/deduct; ATT keeps content association and does not put GEN on Charge. Same dative letters can show up next to a ledger account — different object.
In Rada przypisała wczesne ukończenie wykonawcy, 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 (obwiniać / winić; contrast oskarżać). Blame ascribes fault; attribute ascribes content (polarity open). Blame’s ACC is typically Target (oskarżyła wykonawcę o opóźnienie; winili wykonawcę za opóźnienie; obwiniali wykonawcę o opóźnienie). Attribute’s ACC is Charge (przypisała opóźnienie wykonawcy). Blame’s za / o / na clothes are not productive ATT frames.
≠ MERIT. Shared √ASCRIBE family can write positive / recognition polarity in other languages. Polish has no live MERIT micro-entry. Do not invent credit-merit-pl.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.
≠ attributeXFER / creditFIN. Ledger MeasureP / Account is a different root (Rada zapisała 0,3 ETH na rachunku is a pointer, not an Index 2 Attitude citation). ATT has no MeasureP and no Account. Collapsing them because both can sit next to a dative or na is the error the lexical entry was written to block. XFER stays at attribute-xfer.html. GEN-neg on a measuring QP belongs on that FIN/deduct object, not on ATT Charge.
≠ English DOC / Transfer invert. There is no productive bare DOC with two ACC objects as the preferred ATT cloth. A weak dative pronoun 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 dative on ATT is Target Case, not a Goal address with a MeasureP Theme.
≠ Bulgarian на ambiguity as the Polish light-noun default.приписване cannot spell GEN vs DAT. Polish przypisanie rady (GEN Judge) vs przypisanie radzie (DAT Target) can. Syncretism (wykonawcy) is the residue, flagged beside the split, not a reason to collapse the heads.
Missing defaults. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed. Czy nie przypisali wczesne ukończenie wykonawcy? 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 на stays ambiguous. Polish twin: ACC Charge + morphological DAT Target; light-noun GEN vs DAT spelled apart; no doubling. Weather OK as Target, not as Judge. Document-metonymy Judge OK.
Shells, ApplP, and Case
Base tree (ascribe-content · Polish clothes)
productive cloth (przypisywaćcośkomuś):
VoiceP [ JudgeNOM
vP / √ASCRIBE
ACC Charge
DAT Target ] ← morphological dative; mu/jej/im = that Target
not a doubled copy, not a DOC
*with-style (unavailable as productive ATT):
VoiceP [ JudgeNOM
vP / √ASCRIBE
ACC Target
PP_z / PP_za / PP_na Charge ] ← * on attributeATT
Light-noun scout (heads spelled apart):
DP [ GEN ≈ Judge (rady ≠ DAT radzie)
N / przypisanieN
GEN Charge-type content
DAT Target ] ← BG на cannot spell this split
syncretic wykonawcy: flag, do not rank
passive (promotes Charge):
VoiceP [ ChargeNOM
vP / √ASCRIBE
DAT Target ]
Polish ATT never assigns four structural Cases. Charge is ACC. Target wears morphological dative (or lives inside the light-noun DAT). 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. Perfective przypisać is not a second root on this tree.
Composition is V(DP) on the ACC Charge. DAT Target is Case 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. mu / jej / im resume Target; go / ją / je can resume Charge. Unlike Bulgarian, the pronoun does not double a prepositional copy of the same Target.
Inanimate Target is fine. Inanimate subject as Judge is not generated — that is the Voice filter, not a Case accident. Passive promotes Charge (zostało przypisane). It does not promote Target into a subject that still takes a bare ACC Charge. Impersonal przypisano suppresses a named Judge; it does not add an argument.
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
✓ Czy nie kazali radzie przypisać wczesne ukończenie wykonawcy?outer Neg denies causing · DAT causee = inner Judge · constructed
* Czy nie kazali złej pogodzie przypisać opóźnienie wykonawcy?weather still not inner Judge
* Wykonawca został przypisany wczesne ukończenie.passive does not promote Target
Attribute Group A Larson shells. Read as attributeATT (ascription). attributeXFER is a different root and is not this drawing. Polish Group C clothes (ACC Charge + DAT Target; light-noun GEN vs DAT) sit on the same inventory; the Group C shell plate is cited in corpus, not re-embedded here.
Underivables (Polish ATT)
* Zła pogoda przypisała opóźnienie wykonawcy?weather / inanimate as Judge
* Zła pogoda nie przypisała opóźnienie komuś?Voice filter survives Neg
* Czy nie kazali złej pogodzie przypisać opóźnienie wykonawcy?CAUSE wrap does not wash Voice filter
* Rada przypisała wykonawcę wczesne ukończenie.no productive DOC
* Co przypisali wykonawcę sukces? as DOC under WH missing DOC under WH
* Rada przypisała wykonawcę z wczesnym ukończeniem.no with-frame
* Ile nie przypisano wykonawcy z ukończenia?no verbal MeasureP LBC host on ATT
* Rada przypisała opóźnienie na wykonawcę.no blame onto-cloth
* Rada przypisała wykonawcę za wczesne ukończenie.no blame for-cloth
* Rada zamieniła wykonawcę za wczesne ukończenie. as ascribe-content SWAP cloth ≠ ascribe-content
✓ weather as Target: Przypisali opóźnienie złej pogodzie.inanimate Target fine
✓ document Judge: Raport przypisał opóźnienie linii lotniczej.metonymy Judge fine
Group C packaging · Polish closes 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; the light-noun на does not split GEN vs DAT. Polish hosts Charge as ACC and Target as morphological DAT. Multiple WH can front together (kto co / kto komu co — cluster hypothesis, not a ranked elicitation). The light noun spells GEN (possessor / Judge) and DAT (Target) apart when the noun’s paradigm does (rady vs radzie; firmy vs firmie). Polish GEN-neg on a MeasureP is a FIN/deduct fact and is not rewritten onto ATT Charge. This tick is Polish only and closes the Group C ATT set opened by attributeATT · tulajdonít and continued by attributeATT · приписвам. English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, German, Dutch, and Norwegian ATT twins are live. FIN / XFER remains pointer-only. No Polish MERIT page is shipped here.
Open items
Light-noun przypisanie. Productivity vs bare przypisywać is scout-leaning. GEN possessor ≈ Judge and DAT = Target where the heads are distinct. Bulgarian на never makes that cut. Flagged, not ranked.
Syncretism.wykonawcy is GEN or DAT. A lone przypisanie wykonawcy is the same Judge-vs-Target ambiguity Bulgarian has on every на. Flagged, not ranked, and not a reason to ignore rady / radzie.
GEN-neg. Rewrites MeasureP of FIN/deduct. Does not rewrite ATT Charge. The GEN string on Charge in the NegQ block is an open packaging flag, not an elicited paradigm and not a claim about other accusatives.
Quantified-Charge hybrid.przypisała wykonawcy 30 % oszczędności — Charge recoded as a quantified share. Diagnostics: replaceable by ascribe, not by a ledger credit; weather can wear the dative; the board can be wrong. Flagged, not deepened as verbal MeasureP on plain ATT.
Aspect pair.przypisywać / przypisać are one root. Perfective frames are eventive spell-outs, not a second sense page.
MERIT. No credit-merit-pl.html. Prose pointer only. Index 2 does not print a merit root on the Polish Attitude line. Do not invent a live link.
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 Polish FIN micro-entry.
WH cluster ranking.Kto co przypisał wykonawcy? and Kto komu co przypisał? are Group C packaging hypotheses. They are not an elicited paradigm.
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 Polish Attitude cites obwiniać / winić, przypisywać. Hungarian and Bulgarian twin geometry shared with attribute-att-hu.html and attribute-att-bg.html. Constructed PL frames diagnose packaging; they are not new elicitation. Bulgarian приписване is the ambiguous-на parallel; Polish przypisanie is the page that spells GEN vs DAT 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.