Esimerkiksessä

Esimerkiksessä is a term used in linguistic discussions to denote a hypothetical grammatical form that would mean "in the role of an example" or "within an example" in Finnish. It is not part of standard Finnish grammar and has no official recognition in dictionaries. The term is primarily used in theoretical demonstrations of how affixes can stack in Finnish to express modality and semantic role.

The word would be built from esimerkki (example) plus the suffix -ksi, which marks a role or identity ("as"), and the inessive suffix -ssä ("in"). The resulting form esimerkiksessä would be interpreted as "in the state or role of an example." As a theoretical compound, it illustrates how semantic roles might be encoded by combining case-like suffixes with a derivational base in hypothetical analyses of Finnish.

In usage, esimerkiksessä appears only in linguistics papers as a didactic or thought-experiment example. It is not attested in ordinary Finnish texts, and its use risks conflating standard forms such as esimerkissä ("in the example") and esimerkiksi ("as an example"). When discussed, it is usually treated as a tool for illustrating morphosyntactic possibilities rather than a recommended form for everyday language.

References and notes: Esimerkiksessä is a provisional, hypothetical term and does not appear in major Finnish dictionaries. See also Finnish grammar, inflection, and translational morphology.