Kielellisissä

Kielellisissä is the inessive plural form of the Finnish adjective kielellinen, meaning linguistic or language-related. In Finnish, adjectives inflect for number and case to agree with the noun they modify; when the noun is plural and in the inessive case, the adjective takes the ending -issä, yielding kielellisissä. This form is therefore used to describe something that exists or occurs “in linguistic” contexts, circles, or domains, and is not a standalone noun.

As a grammatical form, kielellisissä functions as a modifier that accompanies a plural noun in the inessive case. It indicates a domain or field related to language, such as linguistics or language studies, without specifying the exact noun if it is understood from context. Because Finnish adjectives do not carry gender, kielellisissä applies equally to all genders of the modified noun.

Common usage occurs in academic or scholarly writing about language. It appears with nouns like piireissä (in circles), konteksteissa (in contexts), tutkimuksissa (in studies), or keskusteluissa (in discussions). For example: Kielellisissä piireissä on keskusteltu tästä ilmiöstä; Kielellisissä konteksteissa tämä havainto voi vaikuttaa tulkintaan. In everyday prose, the phrase helps situate statements within the field of linguistics.

Note that kielellisissä is a grammatical form rather than a fixed noun. Its meaning is inherently tied to the noun it modifies, and it is most often encountered as part of larger phrases rather than alone.