Sanastollisena

Sanastollisena is a Finnish linguistic term used to describe something from a lexical or vocabulary-focused perspective. It is the essive form of the adjective sanastollinen, meaning “lexical” or “vocabulary-based,” and appears in scholarly writing to signal analysis or description at the level of the lexicon rather than at morphology, syntax, or broader semantics.

The term is commonly used in phrases such as sanastollisena käsitteenä (as a lexical concept), sanastollisena ilmaisuna (as a lexical expression), or sanastollisena näkökulmana (as a lexical perspective). These usages contrast with approaches that emphasize grammatical structures, inflection, or syntactic relations, by foregrounding vocabulary items, collocations, and lexical semantics.

Etymology and form: sanastollinen comes from sanasto (lexicon or vocabulary) plus the adjectival suffix -llinen, and sanastollisena is the essive case form used to denote a state or role, roughly translating to “as lexical.”

In practice, sanastollisena guides discussions about lexical items, collocations, semantic fields, and vocabulary strategies across languages or within language teaching and research. It is most common in academic or scholarly contexts and serves to mark a vocabulary-centered stance or analysis, distinct from purely grammatical or syntactic viewpoints.