[Lingtyp] What is the opposite of syncretism?

[Siva Kalyan]

Does that mean syncrisis would be a more etymologically accurate term for “syncretism”?

Siva

> On 17 Aug 2023, at 9:29 am, Christian Lehmann <christian.lehmann at uni-erfurt.de> wrote:
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> As for the terminological question:
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> The idea behind the term syncretism 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 diacrisis. This is actually an English word (all Greek and Latin terms are English words ...), although heretofore occupied by other disciplines with different meanings.
> 
> Discretism would be the habit of being discrete - not recommended.
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> Am 15.08.2023 um 03:27 schrieb Cat Butz:
>> 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, 
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