credit_MERIT · elismer

Hierarchy

Same inventory as English credit_MERIT, Romance twins, Japanese 功績を認める, Mandarin 归功于, German zuschreiben, and live Hungarian attribute_ATT. 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.

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 (az érdem mekkora része, 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. Group C FIN/deduct GEN-neg on MeasureP is a different object; MERIT 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. Target and Charge still do not invert at Transfer cost. Treating credit_MERIT as Agent > Theme > Goal, collapsing it with attribute_ATT because both can spell DAT+ACC, or collapsing it with FIN because dative can also mark Account under jóváír, predicts a DOC, a HAVE entailment, a MeasureP LBC host, or a grammatical weather-as-Judge — none of those exist on MERIT.

Hungarian frames · Case clothes

Group C packages merit-ascribe without a productive DOC. Productive cloth: Charge ACC with Target in dative (valakinek valamit elismer). Cheap NegQ association and cheap WH track the focused Case object under Focus+nem, and the prefix el- leaves the verb. Light-noun érdem / elismerés parks recognition under the same root. ATT contrast uses live tulajdonít on the same Case letters with content polarity, not recognition. FIN uses jóváír for MeasureP / Account — different root; pointer only below. Blame ACC is typically Target.

1. ✓ A befektetők a vállalkozónak a korai befejezést elismerték. DAT Target · ACC Charge · bare elismer
2. ✓ A befektetők elismerték a vállalkozó érdemeit. light noun · érdem · possessor = Target
3. ✓ A befektetők a vállalkozónak az érdemet elismerték. light noun · érdem · DAT Target
4. ✓ Nem a korai befejezést ismerték el a vállalkozónak? Focus+nem · content-Focus (= Charge) · prefix separates
5. ✓ Nem a vállalkozónak ismerték el a korai befejezést? Focus+nem · Target-Focus · DAT
6. ✓ Elismerték a vállalkozónak a sikert? polar · no preverbal Focus · prefix stays
7. ✓ Neki a sikert elismerték. neki = Target; Charge ACC
8. ✓ A sikert a rossz időjárásnak elismerték. weather = Target OK
9. ✓ A jelentés a vállalkozónak a korai befejezést elismerte. document-metonymy Judge · fine
10. ✓ Light-noun scout: A bizottság elismerése a vállalkozónak vitatott volt. elismerés · AGR=Judge · DAT=Target · scout
11. ✓ Companion scout: A bizottság a vállalkozót a korai befejezésért elismerte. ACC Target · -ért Charge · scout-leaning
12. ✓ Nem a bizottsággal ismertették el a korai befejezést a vállalkozónak? causative wrap · outer CAUSE · constructed
13. ✓ FIN pointer only: A tanács minden számlának 0,3 ETH-t jóváírt. FIN · jóváír · do not deepen
14. ✓ ATT contrast (live): A tanács a vállalkozónak a korai befejezést tulajdonította. ATT · tulajdonít · content-ascribe · keep split
15. ✓ blame contrast (pointer): A bizottság a vállalkozót hibáztatta a késésért. blame · ACC = Target · hibáztat
16. ✓ blame contrast (pointer): A késésért a vállalkozót okolják. blame · ACC = Target · okol
17. * A rossz időjárás a vállalkozónak a sikert elismerte? weather as Judge
18. * A vállalkozónak a korai befejezést a sikert elismerték? no productive DOC (bare double ACC)
19. * A vállalkozót a korai befejezéssel elismerték? no with-frame / instrumental Charge cloth as productive MERIT
20. * A sikert a vállalkozóra elismerték? no blame onto-cloth as Charge host for MERIT

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 KORAI BEFEJEZÉST or A VÁLLALKOZÓNAK, not both (chat 04, same cut as live ATT). The prefix cannot share that slot. 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 and to blame’s missing cause-true default.

WH / NegQ diagnostics · Focus+nem · 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 érdem / elismerés. Group C FIN/deduct GEN-neg on MeasureP does not rewrite MERIT Charge as GEN — MERIT packages content-Focus / no GEN on Charge. WH is Focus, so el- separates.

1. ✓ Ki ismerte el a vállalkozónak a korai befejezést? WH = Judge · definite object · prefix off
2. ✓ Mit ismertek el a vállalkozónak? WH = Charge · ACC · indefinite conjugation
3. ✓ Kinek ismerték el a korai befejezést? WH = Target · DAT
4. ✓ Az érdem mekkora részét ismerték el a vállalkozónak? degree on light noun · Abney-side, not verbal MeasureP
5. * Mennyit nem ismertek el a vállalkozónak a befejezésből? no verbal MeasureP LBC host on MERIT
6. ✓ Focus uniqueness: A KORAI BEFEJEZÉST ismerték el a vállalkozónak. Charge Focus · one host
7. ✓ Focus uniqueness: A VÁLLALKOZÓNAK ismerték el a korai befejezést. Target Focus · one host
8. * A KORAI BEFEJEZÉST A VÁLLALKOZÓNAK ismerték el. Focus uniqueness · not both
9. ✓ A sikert a rossz időjárásnak elismerték. weather = Target · fine
10. * A rossz időjárással nem ismertették el a vállalkozónak a sikert? weather still not inner Judge under causative wrap

Superiority ranks Judge > ACC Charge > DAT Target > outer. The productive cloth keeps Charge as Case object and Target as dative — parallel to German DAT Target + ACC Charge and to English to-frame, not a with-frame flip that would make Target ACC. Cheap NegQ association under Focus+nem tracks the focused Case object. There is no ranking of Charge against a silent Purpose, Price, or Theme₂.

Geometry · credit_MERIT ≠ attribute_ATT ≠ hibáztat/okol ≠ credit_FIN ≠ Transfer

In A befektetők a vállalkozónak a korai befejezést elismerték, 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. Polarity is positive / recognition, unlike live ATT tulajdonít, which ascribes content without advertising merit.

• ≠ attribute_ATT (tulajdonít). Shared √ASCRIBE family, shared DAT Target + ACC Charge, shared Focus+nem, and shared Voice filter. credit_MERIT writes positive / meritorious polarity. Bare tulajdonít is the live Group C content-ascribe cloth at attribute-att-hu.html — keep the split: do not import ATT acceptability onto elismer as if recognition were the default content-ascribe, and do not import érdem packaging onto ATT. ATT HU already opened Group C; this tick deepens MERIT on the same group.
• ≠ blame / √ASCRIBE_FAULT (hibáztat / okol). Opposite polarity. Blame ascribes fault; credit ascribes merit. Shared Voice filter; polarity of HOLD differs. Blame’s ACC is typically Target (a vállalkozót hibáztatni a késésért); MERIT’s productive ACC is Charge (a korai befejezést a vállalkozónak elismerni). A scout ACC-Target + -ért companion on elismer is praise-adjacent, not the blame root and not the default MERIT cloth.
• ≠ credit_FIN / jóváír. Group C names the roots on one Index 2 line. FIN writes MeasureP TO a Domain / Account (A tanács minden számlának 0,3 ETH-t jóváírt). MERIT has no MeasureP and no Account — keep on elismer / light-noun érdem. Collapsing them because both can sit next to Hungarian dative is the error the lexical entry was written to block. Pointer only — do not write a FIN page this tick.
• ≠ English DOC / Transfer invert. There is no productive bare DOC with two ACC objects. Negation / Focus does not rescue it. Transfer Themes invert under swap NegQ; MERIT Target and Charge do not.
• ≠ sell / Appl_HAVE / charge_FEE. No Appl_HAVE, no ért-Price MeasureP as verbal MERIT cloth, no Appl_FROM Payer. Surface -ért on the scout companion is content of the attitude — not Price and not FEE Consideration.
• Missing defaults. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed. Nem a korai befejezést ismerték el a vállalkozónak? is compatible with the contractor not in fact causing the early completion. Ironic polarity 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. Romance twins: Charge ACC / Target a/à; light-noun mérito/mérite/merito. German twin: DAT Target + ACC Charge (jmdm. etw. zuschreiben); light-noun Verdienst. Hungarian twin: DAT Target (-nak/-nek) + ACC Charge; Focus+nem with prefix separation; light-noun elismerés / érdem scout. Weather OK as Target, *not* as Judge. Document-metonymy Judge OK.

Shells, ApplP, and Case

1. M1√ASCRIBE merges with ACC Charge
2. M2DAT (-nak/-nek) merges with Target
3. M3Voice merges Judge
4. A4T ↔ Judge · NOM + φ (definite if Charge is definite)
5. A5v ↔ Charge · ACC
6. V6One Focus host → preverbal slot
7. V7Prefix el- separates under Focus / nem
8. F8Voice filter · weather ≠ Judge
9. G9Gold negative · no verbal MeasureP LBC on MERIT

productive cloth (valakinek valamit elismer):
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √ASCRIBE
    ACC               Charge
    DAT (-nak/-nek)   Target ]

Focus field (one host · prefix el- leaves V):
  [FocusP  ChargeFOC / TargetFOC   ·   *both ]
  NegQ associates under Focus+nem

Light-noun érdem:
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √ELISMER-
    ACC               érdemN   (Charge-type / MERIT)
    DAT               Target ]

Light-noun scout elismerés:
VoiceP / DP  [ JudgeAGR on N
  N / elismerésN
    DAT               Target ]   ← Poss-AGR = Judge; verbal -nak = Target

Hungarian MERIT never assigns four structural Cases. Charge is ACC; Target wears DAT (or lives inside the light-noun / possessor cloth). 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. Focus is one host, not a second subject.

Composition is V(DP) on the ACC object. Dative Target is structural/oblique Case on the Abney spine of Target (same cut as English to / German DAT / Romance a/à): V(DP), not V(nak(DP)). Early completion does not travel a path; the contractor is not an instrument of -val/-vel and not a Goal with HAVE rights.

Pronoun height: neki/nekik resumes Target under light-noun and under many productive strings; ACC pronouns can resume Charge or érdem. Inanimate Target is fine. Inanimate subject as Judge is not generated — that is the Voice filter, not a Case accident. Definite conjugation tracks a definite Charge; mit takes the indefinite series.

Outer CAUSE (elismertet) wraps Voice. The causee, not the weather, is the Judge. Type A climbing unions Voice domains; Charge stays content and never climbs as a dative MeasureP. Under the wrap the prefix still separates when Focus+nem is present.

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.

Underivables (Hungarian MERIT)

1. * A rossz időjárás a vállalkozónak a sikert elismerte? weather / inanimate as Judge
2. * A rossz időjárás senkinek nem ismerte el a sikert? Voice filter survives Neg
3. * A rossz időjárással nem ismertették el a vállalkozónak a sikert? CAUSE wrap does not wash Voice filter
4. * A vállalkozónak a befejezést a sikert elismerték? no productive DOC
5. * Mennyit nem ismertek el a vállalkozónak a befejezésből? no verbal MeasureP LBC host on MERIT
6. * A befektetők a vállalkozónak 0,3 ETH-t érdemként elismerték? FIN MeasureP ≠ MERIT Charge (unless share hybrid — flag)
7. * A vállalkozót a korai befejezéssel elismerték? no with-frame
8. * A sikert a vállalkozóra elismerték? no blame onto-cloth
9. * A KORAI BEFEJEZÉST A VÁLLALKOZÓNAK ismerték el. Focus uniqueness · not both hosts
10. * A vállalkozót a korai befejezésért cserélték? as ascribe-merit SWAP cloth ≠ ascribe-merit
11. ✓ weather as Target: A sikert a rossz időjárásnak elismerték. inanimate Target fine
12. ✓ document Judge: A jelentés a vállalkozónak a korai befejezést elismerte. metonymy Judge fine

Group C packaging · Hungarian deepens Inner European MERIT

Group C (Hungarian, Bulgarian, Polish) is the Inner European Focus / cluster / GEN-neg contrast set already predicted for NegQ on blame / sell / bet / charge_FEE / credit. Same hierarchy as English credit_MERIT; Hungarian hosts Charge as ACC and Target as DAT, with unique preverbal Focus, Focus+nem, and separation of el-. Content-Focus / no GEN on Charge contrasts MeasureP GEN-neg on FIN/deduct (Polish) — packaging on listed hosts, not a fourth sister. This tick is Hungarian MERIT only and deepens Group C HU MERIT on elismer. It does not open Group C: live attribute_ATT · tulajdonít already opened Group C HU ATT. German credit_MERIT opened Group D Germanic MERIT. English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Mandarin MERIT twins are live. Bulgarian / Polish ascribe companions and Dutch toeschrijven stay predicted or next-queue — not elicited here. FIN HU jóváír remains pointer-only.

Open items

• Bare elismer vs light-noun productivity. Relative frequency of valakinek valamit elismer vs érdem / elismerés is scout-leaning — flagged, not ranked. Poss-AGR = Judge and verbal DAT = Target on elismerés follow the chat 15 cut already used for tulajdonítás.
• ACC Target + -ért companion. elismer valakit valamiért is praise-adjacent and scout-leaning. Do not force it as the default DAT+ACC cloth, and do not collapse it with blame’s ACC-Target geometry.
• Share-of-credit MeasureP hybrid. Lexical entry §5.4: Charge recoded as quantified share (az érdem 30 %-a). Diagnostics: replaceable by elismer, not by jóváír; weather can wear the Target slot; the investors can be wrong. Flagged, not deepened as verbal MeasureP on plain MERIT. The LBC diagnostic on MERIT stays negative.
• ATT / MERIT split on shared Case. Live tulajdonít uses the same DAT+ACC letters for content-ascribe. Keep the split; do not merge the pages.
• FIN Hungarian. Ledger jóváír remains a later tick. Pointer only. Do not write a FIN page here.
• Dutch Group D MERIT. toeschrijven is the preferred following candidate. Not this tick.
• Bulgarian / Polish Group C. Predicted companions deferred.
• Navajo MERIT. HANDLE packaging deferred; sell·Navajo also deferred.

Corpus filenames

Primary extract for this micro-entry is Lexical_Entry_Credit_Argument_Structure (√ASCRIBE vs √CREDIT_LEDGER; positive polarity; no verbal MeasureP). NegQ association maps from Negative_Questions_Credit (Groups A–D). Hungarian Focus uniqueness is the Group C packaging already cited for live ATT (Attribute_GroupC_Larson_Shells, chat 04): one preverbal host, Charge -t / Target -nak, Focus+nem. Light-noun AGR=Judge is the chat 15 cut, applied here as a scout hypothesis for elismerés, not as new elicitation. Index 2 Vols. 3, 6 Hungarian Attitude cell. Constructed HU frames diagnose packaging; they are not spontaneous-speech citations.