commodify
commodify.01 - to make into a commodity, commercialize
COMMODIFY-V NOTES: Frames file for 'commodify' based on survey of sentences in ectb2. Comparison with 'commercialize.' No VerbNet entry. (from commodify.01-v predicate notes)COMMODITIZATION-N NOTES: Roleset based on instances in BOLT P01. Comparison to verb entry commodify.01. No VN, FN. (from commoditization.01-n)
Aliases:
commoditization (n.)
commodify (v.)
commodify (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: causer, agent
ARG1-PPT: thing commodified
ARG2-MNR: instrument, if separate from arg 0
ARG1-PPT: thing commodified
ARG2-MNR: instrument, if separate from arg 0
transitive
In his book The Art of Life , the humorist Lin Yutang noted
howARGM-MNR
commercial advertisingARG0
has commodifiedrel
virtually every inch of a woman 's body , right down to the last line and the last painted toenailARG1
.with instrument
CapitalismARG0
commodifiesrel
everythingARG1
with glitzy advertising and tacky slogansARG2
.Arg1 only
i think this issue is only valuable for the purposes of supporting
commoditizationrel
of CO2ARG1
.All args.
Recorded history is ripe with evidence of
theirARG0
commoditizationrel
of violenceARG1
, e.g. imperialism .