<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Does that mean <i class="">syncrisis</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> would be a more etymologically accurate term for “syncretism”?</span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Siva<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Aug 2023, at 9:29 am, Christian Lehmann <<a href="mailto:christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de" class="">christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><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="">
</p><p class=""><i class="">Discretism</i> would be the habit of being discrete - not
recommended.</p><p class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 15.08.2023 um 03:27 schrieb Cat
Butz:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:7dfed832b0c6fe092089a7bc7110d9eb@hhu.de" class="">Hello everyone,
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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?
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Thank you, and hopefully see you on Thursday/Friday,
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