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<p>According to Liddell & Scott, σύγκρισις means 'aggregation,
combination, condensation'. It seems possible that there is other
noun more apt to mean 'designation of more than one member of a
paradigm by the same expression'.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 16.08.2023 um 18:40 schrieb Siva
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Does that mean <i class="">syncrisis</i><span style="font-style:
normal;" class=""> would be a more etymologically accurate term
for “syncretism”?</span>
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<p class="">As for the terminological question:</p>
<p class="">The idea behind the term <i class="">syncretism</i>
is 'mixture'; it is based - with some non-canonical
morphology intervening - on the Greek verb for mixing
(the English wikipedia is on the right track with
this). However, this idea fits better the religious
concept of syncretism. The linguistic concept is not
really a kind of mixing things, but a failure to
distinguish them. Its opposite is differentiation or
distinction. If you want a Greek term, it would be <i
class="">diacrisis</i>. This is actually an English
word (all Greek and Latin terms are English words
...), although heretofore occupied by other
disciplines with different meanings.<br class="">
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<p class=""><i class="">Discretism</i> would be the
habit of being discrete - not recommended.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 15.08.2023 um 03:27
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I'm presenting a pronoun paradigm of Dalkalaen this
week at the Affixes symposium in Turku. It exhibits
both some very weird syncretism (same marking of 1EX
and 2nd person) and the opposite of that (e.g. plural
being marked differently in all four persons). What do
we call that? Just differential marking? <br class="">
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Thank you, and hopefully see you on Thursday/Friday, <br
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