Jäsennyksen
Jäsennyksen is the genitive form of jäsennys, a Finnish linguistic term that describes the process of analyzing language by breaking down words and phrases into their constituent elements. The concept covers both morphological analysis, which identifies morphemes such as stems, prefixes, suffixes, and inflectional endings, and, in broader usage, syntactic parsing, which examines how words combine to form phrases and clauses. In practice, jäsennyksen is used in language description, education, and language technology to describe how linguistic units are organized and interpreted.
In morphology, jäsennys aims to determine the smallest meaningful units in a word and how they attach
Jäsennyksen is a fundamental concept in Finnish grammar and is widely used in teaching, corpus annotation,
Related topics include morpheme and morphemic analysis, syntactic parsing, stemming, and lemmatization.