Näkövyyssanan
Näkövyyssanan is a term used in linguistic theory to describe a word whose central meaning encodes perceptual appearance of a referent. The term is a Finnish construction, combining näkö ("appearance, sight") with a suffix used in theoretical discussions to label a lexical item category related to perceptual properties. In scholarly use, näkövyyssanan is typically cited in analyses of how languages package what something looks like to an observer.
A näkövyyssana refers to a word whose primary function is to convey how something appears to the
In analyses where the category is employed, näkövyyssana often behaves like an adjective or a predicative predicate,
Näkövyyssanan is related to, but distinct from, color terms, texture descriptors, and evaluative adjectives. It is
Comparable notions exist in typological linguistics under labels like appearance predicates or perceptual predicates. Finnish researchers
Perceptual semantics, appearance adjectives, color terms, Finnish linguistics.