[Lingtyp] What is the opposite of syncretism?

Cat Butz Cat.Butz at hhu.de
Tue Aug 15 09:27:00 UTC 2023


Hello everyone,

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?

Thank you, and hopefully see you on Thursday/Friday,
-- 
Cat Butz (she)
HHU Düsseldorf
General Linguistics


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