Lausumisellaan

Lausumisellaan is a Finnish grammatical form used to indicate that an action or event occurs during a person’s utterance or while they are speaking. It functions as an adessive-based temporal frame that foregrounds the speech act itself rather than the surrounding actions. In written Finnish, it often appears in formal or journalistic contexts to attribute a time frame to a speaker’s statements.

Etymology and formation: The form derives from the verb lausua, meaning to say or pronounce, and the nominalized concept of an utterance. It is combined with the adessive case suffix and a possessive suffix to indicate “his/her” utterance, yielding lausumisellaan. The basic sense is approximately “during his/her utterance” or “in the course of his/her speaking.” Because it centers on the act of speaking, lausumisellaan can precede or accompany a main clause to set the frame for reported remarks or actions.

Usage: Lausumisellaan is relatively formal and is more common in written prose than in everyday speech. It is used to foreground the timing of what a speaker said or argued, and it can be paired with various predicates in the main clause. The form is flexible enough to describe different speakers and contexts, including political discourse, interviews, and narrative passages, where the emphasis is on the content or stance expressed during the utterance.

Examples: Lausumisellaan presidentti korosti talouskasvun merkitystä. Lausumisellaan hän viittasi aiempaan lausuntoon. These sentences illustrate how the form anchors subsequent commentary to the speaker’s utterance.

See also: puhe, puheenvuoro, lausuma.