Event Structure

Sense · Payment

payBILL

The accusative is the document, not the amount. with/in can put MeasureP back in as instrument or denomination.

Hierarchy

Not a fourth argument of payGIVE. Passive promotes the invoice.

English frames

  1. ✓ Pat paid the invoice.
  2. ✓ Pat paid the invoice with twenty dollars.
  3. * Wasn’t twenty dollars paid the invoice?

The entry leaves pay rent / tuition / a fine on the border: one MeasureP with a sortal noun, not a fifth slot.

Index 2 citations for this class

Payment citations from Index 2
CodeLanguageIndex 2 citationAs printed
ENEnglishpay, remit, wire, transferVol. 3
ESSpanishpagar, transferir, girarVol. 5
FRFrenchpayer, virer, transférerVol. 5
ITItalianpagare, bonificare, trasferireVol. 5
HUHungarianfizet, átutalVols. 3, 6
BGBulgarianплащам, превеждамVols. 3, 6
PLPolishpłacić / zapłacić, przelewać / przelaćVols. 3, 6
DEGermanbezahlen, überweisenVol. 7
NLDutchbetalen, overmakenVol. 7
NONorwegianbetale, overføreVol. 7

Languages Index 2 does not list for this class are left off the table.