Rolesets - balkanize

balkanize

balkanize.01 - to divide into smaller, quarrelsome and ineffectual groups

BALKANIZE-V NOTES: Frameset by Claire (from balkanize.01-v)

Aliases:

balkanize (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: causer, agent
ARG1-PPT: larger group/region divided, entity balkanized
ARG2-PRD: resulting state of arg1, secondary predication on arg1

Transitive

There are efforts to expand it and generalize it in the region , or what is sometimes called *PRO*
balkanizingrel
the regionARG1
, like what happened after the collapse of the Soviet Union .

All args

WeARG0
have
balkanizedrel
ourselvesARG1
into islands of ethnocentrism : Italian - Americans , Irish - Americans , Jewish - Americans , Hispanic - Americans ...ARG2