[Lingtyp] What is the opposite of syncretism?

[Christian Lehmann]

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'.

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Am 16.08.2023 um 18:40 schrieb 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:
>>
>> As for the terminological question:
>>
>> 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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