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four-place / tritransitive surface frame

packaging.surface_arity · Owner site · map/entries.yaml

English often packages the 4th participant as PP or clause; other Groups (Case, 把, Double-o, applicatives, MeasureP) spell the same geometry differently. Calquing EN argument shape into JA/FR/DE yields stiff chrome.

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four-place / tritransitive surface frame

Grammar

English often packages the 4th participant as PP or clause

Note

From Grant’s four-place Grok notes — how syntax works across those languages.

Compensations recorded: re_package_for_locale, keep_event_sense_constant.

Related: geometry vs packaging (3+1 / 1+3 / 2+2); MeasureP unit U as inner argument.

Sites: krazytogobox, causative-cooking.

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