credit_MERIT · acreditar / reconocer el mérito

Hierarchy

Same inventory as English credit_MERIT and Japanese 功績を認める. Not five-place. Not four sisters of one V. Surface count can name the investors, the early completion, and the contractor — but the lexicon does not list four co-arguments of √ASCRIBE / √ACREDIT-.

No MeasureP on MERIT. There is no verbal Amount+Denomination object unless Charge itself has been recoded as a share of credit (English lexical entry §5.4 hybrid — flag, do not deepen). Degrees that sneak in (cuánto mérito, partitives on Charge) live on the Abney spine of a light noun or of Charge — 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. Target and Charge still do not invert at Transfer cost. Treating credit_MERIT as Agent > Theme > Goal, or collapsing it with credit_FIN because Spanish can spell both with acreditar, predicts a DOC, a HAVE entailment, a MeasureP LBC host, or a grammatical weather-as-Judge — none of those exist on MERIT.

Spanish frames · Case clothes

Romance packages merit-ascribe without a productive DOC. Charge can be ACC with Target in a; Target can be a-marked with Charge inside de or con; light-noun el mérito parks Target in a-PP. Clitics and se demotion are height diagnostics — as in the Transfer / blame Romance supplements — but the class contrast remains: Transfer Themes invert under Neg; MERIT Target and Charge do not. FIN uses overlapping letters on acreditar / abonar for MeasureP / Account — different root; pointer only below.

1. ✓ Los inversores atribuyeron la finalización temprana al contratista. to-style · ACC Charge · a-Target · bare atribuir
2. ✓ Los inversores acreditaron la finalización temprana al contratista. to-style · acreditar merit reading
3. ✓ Los inversores acreditaron al contratista de / con la finalización temprana. with-style · a-Target · de/con-Charge
4. ✓ Los inversores reconocieron el mérito al contratista. light noun · mérito · a-Target
5. ✓ Atribuyeron el mérito al contratista. light-noun companion · Index 2 atribuir
6. ✓ ¿No acreditaron la finalización temprana al contratista? polar NegQ · to-style
7. ✓ ¿No le reconocieron el mérito al contratista? polar NegQ · light noun · le = Target
8. ✓ Le acreditaron el éxito. le = Target; Charge ACC
9. ✓ Acreditaron el éxito al clima. weather = Target OK
10. ✓ ¿No hicieron acreditar el éxito al comité? faire wrap · outer CAUSE_G
11. ✓ FIN pointer only: El consejo acreditó 0,3 ETH a cada billetera. FIN · do not deepen
12. * ¿No acreditó el clima el éxito al contratista? weather as Judge
13. * ¿No acreditaron al contratista la finalización temprana? no productive DOC (bare double object)
14. * ¿No acreditaron la finalización temprana en el contratista? no blame on-cloth / en-Target as Charge host

A bare No on the canonical NegQ most readily challenges the ascription event or the ACC object of the chosen cloth. Challenging the oblique wants that content already under discussion. Negation does not grow a double-object and does not create a MeasureP on MERIT. HOLD is not cause-true — parallel to FIN’s missing payout default (HAS_ON_BOOKS ≠ spendable) and to Spanish blame’s missing cause-true default.

WH / NegQ diagnostics · no MeasureP LBC

Unlike sell / pay_GIVE / charge_FEE / bet / credit_FIN, credit_MERIT 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 the light noun mérito / crédito.

1. ✓ ¿Quién no acreditó la finalización temprana al contratista? WH = Judge
2. ✓ ¿Qué no acreditaron al contratista? WH = Charge · to-style
3. ✓ ¿A quién no acreditaron de / con la finalización temprana? WH = Target · with-style
4. ✓ ¿De qué no acreditaron al contratista? WH = Charge · de-cloth
5. ✓ ¿Cuánto mérito no le reconocieron al contratista? degree on light noun · Abney-side, not verbal MeasureP
6. * ¿Cuánto no acreditaron de finalización al contratista? no verbal MeasureP LBC host on MERIT
7. ✓ Acreditaron el éxito al clima. weather = Target · fine
8. * ¿No hicieron acreditar el éxito al clima al contratista? weather still not inner Judge under faire

Superiority ranks Judge > ACC > K-DP. Flip a-Target / de·con-Charge and Charge and Target change which participant is the Case object — Case prominence, not a fixed thematic ranking that would force English blame’s Cognizer > Target > Content default onto every Spanish cloth. Cheap NegQ association tracks the Case object. There is no ranking of Charge against a silent Purpose, Price, or Theme₂.

Geometry · credit_MERIT ≠ credit_FIN ≠ culpar ≠ atribuir_ATT ≠ Transfer

In Los inversores acreditaron / atribuyeron la finalización temprana al contratista, the investors hold that the contractor is responsible for the early completion under meritorious evaluation. That is ascription, not HAVE of goods and not ledger INCREMENT. The contractor is Target. The early completion is Charge. HOLD is an attitude; MERITORIOUS(Target, Charge) is content, not a presupposed fact.

• ≠ credit_FIN. Same surface family of “acreditar” talk when the ledger reading is chosen; different root. FIN writes MeasureP TO a Domain / Account (El consejo acreditó 0,3 ETH a cada billetera / companion abonar). MERIT has no MeasureP and no Account. Collapsing them because both can sit next to Spanish acreditar is the error the lexical entry was written to block. FIN Spanish live at credit-fin-es.html; EN twin credit-fin.html.
• ≠ English DOC / Transfer invert. There is no productive bare DOC *acreditaron al contratista la finalización temprana as a licensed Case pair of the English *credited the contractor the early completion type. Negation does not rescue it. Transfer Themes invert under Romance swap NegQ; MERIT Target and Charge do not.
• ≠ attribute_ATT polarity merge. Shared family (ascribe content to Target) and shared Voice filter; credit_MERIT writes positive / meritorious polarity. Bare Spanish atribuir Charge a Target is the Index 2 Attitude companion and the closest Romance attributeATT cloth — keep the split: MERIT light-noun el mérito and with-style de/con advertise the praise-adjacent packaging English credit’s to/with flip advertises.
• ≠ blame / √ASCRIBE_FAULT (culpar). Opposite polarity. Blame ascribes fault (culpar a … de); credit ascribes merit. Shared de-Charge letter and shared Voice filter; polarity of HOLD differs. Spanish blame lacks a productive English-style with-flip of Charge into con as the default MERIT companion cloth.
• ≠ sell / Appl_HAVE / charge_FEE. No Appl_HAVE, no por-Price MeasureP, no Appl_FROM Payer. Surface por on MERIT, when it appears, is Reason / cause coercion — not Price and not FEE Consideration.
• Missing defaults. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed. ¿No acreditaron la finalización temprana al contratista? is compatible with the contractor not in fact causing the early completion. Ironic polarity (le acreditaron el robo) is lexical HOLD content, not a fourth argument.

English twin spells to-frame Charge ACC / Target to and with-frame Target ACC / Charge with. Japanese twin spells Charge o + Target ni. Spanish twin: to-style Charge ACC / Target a; with-style Target a / Charge de·con; light-noun mérito + a-Target. Weather OK as Target, *not* as Judge.

Shells, ApplP, and Case

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

with-style (acreditar a Target de/con Charge):
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √ASCRIBE
    ACC / a-marked    Target
    PP_de / PP_con    Charge ]

Light-noun:
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √RECONOCER·ATRIBUIR
    ACC               el méritoN   (Charge-type / MERIT)
    PP_a              Target ]

Spanish MERIT never assigns four structural Cases. Charge or Target is ACC / a-marked; the other wears P (or lives inside the light noun). No low Appl_HAVE. No low Appl_SWAP. No Appl_TASK. No MeasureP (unless share-of-credit hybrid — flag). High Appl / Affectee is extra when present and is not a listed argument of √ASCRIBE.

Composition is V(DP) on the ACC object. A, de, and con are wrapper-K on the Abney spine (same cut as attribute’s to / Spanish blame’s de, §6.4): V(DP), not V(a(DP)). Early completion does not travel a path; the contractor is not an instrument of con.

Clitic height: le resumes Target under light-noun and under many to-style strings; lo/la can resume Charge or the light noun. 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 acreditar / hacer reconocer) wraps Voice. The causee, not the weather, is the Judge. *¿No hicieron acreditar el clima el éxito al contratista? 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 MERIT)

1. * ¿No acreditó el clima el éxito al contratista? weather / inanimate as Judge
2. * ¿No hicieron acreditar el clima el éxito al contratista? faire wrap does not wash Voice filter
3. * ¿No acreditaron al contratista la finalización temprana? no productive DOC
4. * ¿Cuánto no acreditaron de finalización al contratista? no verbal MeasureP LBC host on MERIT
5. * ¿No acreditaron al contratista con 0,3 ETH como mérito? FIN MeasureP ≠ MERIT Charge (unless share hybrid — flag)
6. * ¿No acreditaron la finalización temprana en el contratista? no blame on-cloth / en as Charge host
7. * ¿No intercambiaron al contratista por la finalización temprana? SWAP cloth ≠ ascribe-merit
8. ✓ weather as Target: Acreditaron el éxito al clima. inanimate Target fine

Group B packaging · Spanish opens Romance MERIT

Group B (Spanish, French, Italian) is the Romance Case-cloth contrast set already used for NegQ on blame / sell / bet / charge_FEE. Same hierarchy as English credit_MERIT; different host of Charge (de / con / light-noun mérito) and Target (a-PP). Clitics resume Target; se demotion targets Voice. This tick is Spanish only and opens the Group B Romance MERIT set. English, Japanese, and French twins are live at credit-merit.html, credit-merit-ja.html, and credit-merit-fr.html. Italian merit micro-entry is live at credit-merit-it.html. Group C (HU Focus, PL GEN-neg) and Group D (DE zuschreiben vs gutschreiben) stay predicted or scout — not elicited here.

Open items

• French twin. Live at credit-merit-fr.html (attribuer / reconnaître le mérite; cleaner FIN/MERIT split).
• Italian twin. Live at credit-merit-it.html (attribuire / riconoscere il merito; cleaner FIN/MERIT split vs accreditare).
• Single-verb acreditar vs light-noun productivity. Relative frequency of acreditar merit vs reconocer / atribuir el mérito is scout-leaning — flagged, not ranked.
• de vs con Charge cloth. Both appear as with-style companions in packaging hypotheses; controlled elicitation for speaker-variable preference remains open.
• Share-of-credit MeasureP hybrid. Lexical entry §5.4: Charge recoded as quantified share. Diagnostics: replaceable by atribuir/reconocer, not by abonar/transferir; weather can wear the Target slot; the board can be wrong. Flagged, not deepened as verbal MeasureP on plain MERIT.
• Ironic polarity. le acreditaron el robo — HOLD polarity inside the attitude, not a fourth argument.
• Bare atribuir without light noun. Index 2 pairs culpar, atribuir. Bare atribuir Charge a Target overlaps attribute_ATT / assign_ASCRIBE. Keep split; do not collapse on this page.
• FIN Spanish micro-entry. Ledger acreditar / abonar remains a later tick. Keep the split; do not merge pages.

Corpus filenames

Primary extract for this micro-entry is Lexical_Entry_Credit_Argument_Structure (√ASCRIBE vs √CREDIT_LEDGER; Romance morphology split). NegQ association maps from Negative_Questions_Credit (Romance en resumes FIN quantity, not MERIT Charge). Chat packaging: Tritransitive chats 23 (NegQ on credit · two-root · Groups A–D), 25 (credit attitude vs transfer · Romance attribuer vs créditer), and 35 (credit argument-structure acceptability). Spanish blame twin geometry shared with blame-es.html (Group B §9). Constructed ES frames diagnose packaging; they are not new elicitation.