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
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