[Lingtyp] What is the opposite of syncretism?

[Guillaume Jacques]

Concerning the weird pattern 1pl.excl=2pl (distinct from pl.incl), Alex
François reports the same in the languages of Vanikoro, see Table 8 in the
following chapter:

Alex Francois – The languages of Vanikoro (2009) (huma-num.fr)
<https://marama.huma-num.fr/data/AlexFrancois_2009_Vanikoro-languages.pdf>

Le mar. 15 août 2023 à 11:32, Cat Butz <Cat.Butz at hhu.de> a écrit :

> 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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