Lausepõhise

Lausepõhise is the Estonian term used in linguistics to describe methods, analyses or data that are organized around clauses rather than individual words or morphemes. The word combines lause (clause or sentence) with maand root põhine (to base), signaling a clause-based perspective.

Etymology and form

The term is formed from lause and põhine, and appears in various inflected forms depending on syntactic position in a sentence. In usage, lausepõhise can occur as an attributive adjective, for example in phrases like lausepõhise analüüsi or lausepõhise märgenduse, where it denotes that the analysis or annotation is conducted at the level of clauses.

Usage and contexts

Lausepõhise is commonly found in corpus linguistics, syntactic theory and discourse analysis when the primary unit of analysis or annotation is the clause. In contrast to word-based or morpheme-based approaches, clause-based methods emphasize relationships between clauses, clause boundaries, and inter-clausal structure. It is used to describe annotation schemes, parsing strategies, or data organization that rely on clause-level segmentation, rather than tagging individual words alone.

Relation to other terms

Lausepõhise is related to broader concepts in Estonian linguistics such as lause, lauseühendus and lausekonstruktsioon, which pertain to sentence structure and clause relationships. The term is mainly encountered in theoretical discussions or in descriptions of methodology within Estonian-language studies, and its exact usage can vary between researchers and projects.

See also

Lause; lausekonstruktsioon; korpuslingvistika; märgendus.