credit_MERIT · tilskrive

Hierarchy

Same inventory as English credit_MERIT, Romance twins, Japanese 功績を認める, Mandarin 归功于, German zuschreiben, Hungarian elismer, and Dutch toeschrijven. 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 / √TILSKRIV-.

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 (hvor mye fortjeneste, 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 D changes is Case morphology / PP clothes and the named MERIT/FIN packaging split. 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 ATT because both sit on shared tilskrive, or collapsing it with FIN because Norwegian can talk godskrive for ledger, predicts a MeasureP LBC host, a HAVE entailment, or a grammatical weather-as-Judge — none of those exist on MERIT.

Norwegian frames · Case clothes

Norwegian packages merit-ascribe without an English-style bare DOC of two ACC Themes and without a productive dative. Productive cloth: Charge ACC, Target til-PP. The finite verb is V2 and til- stays on the stem — there is no stranded particle of the German zu- / Dutch toe- type. Light-noun æren / fortjeneste parks the same verb (scout-leaning). Companion anerkjenne scout where natural (praise-adjacent). FIN uses godskrive for MeasureP / Account — different root; pointer only below. Keep MERIT on tilskrive / æren / fortjeneste.

1. ✓ Investorene tilskrev den tidlige ferdigstillelsen til entreprenøren. til-Target · ACC Charge
2. ✓ I går tilskrev investorene æren til entreprenøren. V2 · til- bound · not a stranded particle
3. ✓ De har tilskrevet fortjenesten til entreprenøren. light noun · fortjeneste · scout-leaning
4. ✓ De har tilskrevet æren til entreprenøren. light noun · æren · scout-leaning
5. ✓ De anerkjenner entreprenørens fortjeneste. companion anerkjenne · scout-leaning
6. ✓ Har de ikke tilskrevet den tidlige ferdigstillelsen til entreprenøren? polar NegQ · til-Target · ACC Charge
7. ✓ Har de ikke tilskrevet æren til ham? polar NegQ · light noun · til ham = Target
8. ✓ De tilskrev suksessen til ham. ham = Target inside til-PP; Charge ACC
9. ✓ De tilskrev suksessen til det dårlige været. weather = Target OK
10. ✓ Den tidlige ferdigstillelsen ble tilskrevet til entreprenøren. bli promotes Charge
11. ✓ FIN pointer only: Styret har godskrevet 0,3 ETH på kontoen. FIN · godskrive · do not deepen
12. ✓ ATT contrast (live · attribute-att-no): Rådet tilskrev den tidlige ferdigstillelsen til entreprenøren. ATT-leaning bare content-ascribe · same letters · keep MERIT/ATT split
13. ✓ blame contrast (pointer): Komiteen la skylden for forsinkelsen på entreprenøren. blame · legge skylden på · Index 2
14. * Har det dårlige været ikke tilskrevet suksessen til entreprenøren? weather as Judge
15. * Investorene tilskrev entreprenøren den tidlige ferdigstillelsen. DAT mostly gone · no productive dative Target
16. * I går skrev investorene æren entreprenøren til. no stranded particle (unlike DE zu- / NL toe-)
17. * Entreprenøren fikk den tidlige ferdigstillelsen tilskrevet. få out · does not promote Target
18. * Har de tilskrevet entreprenøren den tidlige ferdigstillelsen suksessen? no productive bare double ACC Theme DOC
19. * Har de tilskrevet den tidlige ferdigstillelsen på entreprenøren? no blame på-cloth as Charge host for MERIT

A bare Nei on the canonical NegQ most readily challenges the ascription event or the ACC object. Challenging the til-Target wants that content already under discussion. Negation does not grow a Theme+Theme DOC, does not restore a dative, does not strand a verb particle, 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 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 fortjeneste / æren.

1. ✓ Hvem har ikke tilskrevet den tidlige ferdigstillelsen til entreprenøren? WH = Judge
2. ✓ Hva har de ikke tilskrevet til entreprenøren? WH = Charge · ACC
3. ✓ Til hvem har de ikke tilskrevet den tidlige ferdigstillelsen? WH = Target · til
4. ✓ Hvor mye fortjeneste har de ikke tilskrevet til ham? degree on light noun · Abney-side, not verbal MeasureP
5. * Hvor mye har de ikke tilskrevet av ferdigstillelse til entreprenøren? no verbal MeasureP LBC host on MERIT
6. ✓ De tilskrev suksessen til det dårlige været. weather = Target · fine
7. * Har det dårlige været ikke tilskrevet suksessen til entreprenøren? weather still not Judge
8. * Hvem fikk den tidlige ferdigstillelsen tilskrevet? få does not promote Target

Superiority ranks Judge > ACC > til-PP. The productive cloth keeps Charge as Case object and Target as til-PP — parallel to German DAT Target + ACC Charge and Dutch IO / aan-Target, with the Case clothes changed. Cheap NegQ association tracks the ACC object. There is no ranking of Charge against a silent Purpose, Price, or Theme₂. Pied-piping til hvem is the Target question. A stranded verb particle (skrev … til) is not that question and is out.

Geometry · credit_MERIT ≠ credit_FIN ≠ legge skylden på ≠ attribute_ATT ≠ Transfer

In Investorene tilskrev den tidlige ferdigstillelsen til entreprenøren, 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 / godskrive. Group D names the packaging split. FIN writes MeasureP to a Domain / Account (Styret har godskrevet 0,3 ETH på kontoen). MERIT has no MeasureP and no Account — keep on tilskrive / light-noun æren / fortjeneste. Collapsing them is the error the lexical entry was written to block. Do not deepen FIN this tick — pointer only. Do not open a FIN Norwegian page.
• ≠ English Theme+Theme DOC / Transfer invert. Productive Norwegian is Charge ACC + til-Target, not a licensed bare Theme+Theme DOC and not a restored dative. Negation does not rescue a Theme+Theme DOC. Transfer Themes invert under Germanic swap NegQ; MERIT Target and Charge do not.
• ≠ separable-particle ascribe. German strands zu- (zuschreiben) and Dutch strands toe- (toeschrijven). Norwegian tilskrive is V2 with til- bound to the stem. The til that marks Target is a preposition, not that particle.
• ≠ attribute_ATT polarity merge. Shared family (ascribe content to Target) and shared Voice filter; credit_MERIT writes positive / meritorious polarity. Bare Norwegian tilskrive til-Target + ACC Charge is also the predicted Group D attribute_ATT cloth — keep the split: MERIT light-noun æren / fortjeneste advertises the praise-adjacent packaging. ATT NO is live at attribute-att-no.html. DE ATT is live at attribute-att-de.html; NL ATT is live at attribute-att-nl.html.
• ≠ blame / √ASCRIBE_FAULT (legge skylden på). Opposite polarity. Blame ascribes fault; credit ascribes merit. Shared Voice filter; polarity of HOLD differs. Index 2 lists only the blame string in the Norwegian Attitude cell — deepen MERIT on tilskrive Beyond Index 2; blame clothes stay on legge skylden på.
• ≠ sell / Appl_HAVE / charge_FEE. No Appl_HAVE, no Price MeasureP, no Appl_FROM Payer. Surface content under companion anerkjenne, when scout-leaning, is content of the attitude — not Price and not FEE Consideration.
• Missing defaults. Cause-true and settlement are not entailed. Har de ikke tilskrevet den tidlige ferdigstillelsen til entreprenøren? is compatible with the contractor not in fact causing the early completion. Ironic polarity (tilskrive tyveriet til ham) 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: productive DAT Target + ACC Charge; separable zu-; light-noun Verdienst. Dutch twin: productive IO Target + ACC Charge / aan-Target; separable toe-; light-noun verdienste / erkenning. Norwegian twin: productive til-Target + ACC Charge; no stranded particle; bli promotes Charge and få is out; light-noun æren / fortjeneste scout; anerkjenne companion scout-leaning. Weather OK as Target, not as Judge.

Shells, ApplP, and Case

productive cloth (tilskrive noe til noen):
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √ASCRIBE
    ACC               Charge
    PP_til            Target ]

Light-noun · scout-leaning:
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √TILSKRIV-
    ACC               æren / fortjenestenN   (Charge-type / MERIT)
    PP_til            Target ]

bli-passive (promotes Charge):
VoiceP  [ ChargeNOM
  vP / √TILSKRIV-
    PP_til            Target ]

få-passive: out (no DAT IO left to promote)

Companion anerkjenne · scout-leaning:
VoiceP  [ JudgeNOM
  vP / √ANERKJENN-
    ACC               fortjeneste (Charge-type) ]

Norwegian MERIT never assigns four structural Cases of the English Theme+Theme DOC type, and it does not assign a productive dative. Charge is ACC; Target wears til-PP (or lives inside the light-noun 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. få does not supply that layer.

Composition is V(DP) on the ACC object. til-Target is a PP on the Abney spine of Target (same cut as German DAT / Dutch aan / English to / Romance a/à): V(DP) for Charge, not a Path. Early completion does not travel a path; the contractor is not an instrument. V2 puts the finite verb in second position. til- remains a prefix of that verb. The preposition til introducing Target is a different morpheme from a stranded separable particle.

Pronoun height: ham/henne/dem resume Target inside til-PP under light-noun and under many productive strings; den/det can resume Charge or the light noun. Inanimate Target is fine. Inanimate subject as Judge is not generated — that is the Voice filter, not a Case accident.

bli promotes Charge to subject. The Target stays in the til-PP. få does not promote Target, because the old dative is gone. There is no laten / lassen wrap that washes the Voice filter. Weather remains unable to be Judge.

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; there is no Neg-raising out of Charge.

Underivables (Norwegian MERIT)

1. * Har det dårlige været ikke tilskrevet suksessen til entreprenøren? weather / inanimate as Judge
2. * Fikk det dårlige været suksessen tilskrevet til entreprenøren? få does not wash the Voice filter
3. * Har de tilskrevet entreprenøren ferdigstillelsen suksessen? no productive Theme+Theme DOC
4. * Investorene tilskrev entreprenøren den tidlige ferdigstillelsen. no productive DAT Target
5. * I går skrev investorene æren entreprenøren til. no stranded particle
6. * Hvor mye har de ikke tilskrevet av ferdigstillelse til entreprenøren? no verbal MeasureP LBC host on MERIT
7. * Har de tilskrevet 0,3 ETH som fortjeneste til entreprenøren? FIN MeasureP ≠ MERIT Charge (unless share hybrid — flag)
8. * Har de tilskrevet den tidlige ferdigstillelsen på entreprenøren? no blame på-cloth as Charge host for MERIT
9. * Har de byttet entreprenøren mot den tidlige ferdigstillelsen? SWAP cloth ≠ ascribe-merit
10. * Entreprenøren fikk den tidlige ferdigstillelsen tilskrevet. få out
11. ✓ weather as Target: De tilskrev suksessen til det dårlige været. inanimate Target fine

Group D packaging · Norwegian continues Germanic MERIT

Group D (German, Dutch, Norwegian) is the Germanic Case-cloth / named-root contrast set already predicted for NegQ on blame / sell / bet / charge_FEE / credit. Same hierarchy as English credit_MERIT. Norwegian hosts Charge as ACC and Target as til-PP, with light-noun æren / fortjeneste scout. The verb is V2 and does not strand a particle. bli promotes Charge; få is out. Pronouns resume Target inside til-PP. This tick is Norwegian MERIT only and continues the Group D Germanic MERIT set opened by DE (zuschreiben vs gutschreiben) and continued by NL (toeschrijven vs crediteren / bijschrijven). The Norwegian named-root split is tilskrive ≠ godskrive. English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, German, Hungarian, and Dutch twins are live. godskrive stays a FIN pointer — not elicited as its own page. DE attribute_ATT and NL attribute_ATT are live. ATT NO on shared tilskrive is live at attribute-att-no.html — keep the ATT/MERIT split.

Open items

• Light-noun æren vs fortjeneste. Relative frequency against bare tilskrive noe til noen is scout-leaning — flagged, not ranked, not fake-elicited. Parallel to German Verdienst and Dutch verdienste / erkenning.
• anerkjenne companion. Praise-adjacent packaging; Case clothes are scout-leaning. Do not force English with-frame onto Norwegian without elicitation.
• Share-of-credit MeasureP hybrid. Lexical entry §5.4: Charge recoded as quantified share. Diagnostics: replaceable by tilskrive / anerkjenne, not by godskrive; weather can wear the Target slot; the board can be wrong. Flagged, not deepened as verbal MeasureP on plain MERIT.
• Ironic polarity. tilskrive tyveriet til ham — HOLD polarity inside the attitude, not a fourth argument.
• Bare tilskrive without light noun · ATT NO. The same til-Target + ACC Charge cloth is the predicted Group D attribute_ATT packaging. Keep the split. Content-ascribe is live at attribute-att-no.html (light-noun tilskrivning / attribusjon, not æren / fortjeneste).
• FIN Norwegian micro-entry. Ledger godskrive remains a later tick. Keep the split; do not merge pages and do not deepen MeasureP / Account here.

Corpus filenames

Primary extract for this micro-entry is Lexical_Entry_Credit_Argument_Structure (√ASCRIBE vs √CREDIT_LEDGER; Group D morphology / Case-cloth split). NegQ association maps from Negative_Questions_Credit (Groups A–D; DE zuschreiben vs gutschreiben; NL and NO ascribe vs ledger). Chat packaging: Tritransitive chats 23 (NegQ on credit · two-root · Groups A–D), 25 (credit attitude vs transfer), and 35 (credit argument-structure acceptability), plus Larson shells Group D (Norwegian tilskrive: V2, no stranded particle, til-Target, bli vs få, tilskrive ≠ godskrive). Index 2 Vol. 7 Norwegian Attitude cell prints legge skylden på only. Constructed NO frames diagnose packaging parallel to live DE and NL MERIT; they are not new elicitation.