Syntaktisia

Syntaktisia is the partitive plural form of the Finnish adjective syntaktinen, meaning “syntactic” or “relating to syntax.” In Finnish, adjectives agree with the noun they modify in number and case, so syntaktisia appears when describing plural nouns in the partitive case, for example syntaktisia rakenteita (syntactic structures).

In linguistic and educational contexts, syntaktisia serves as a grammatical modifier rather than a standalone concept. It occurs in sentences such as: “Tutkijat analysoivat lauseen syntaktisia rakenteita,” where syntaktisia modifies rakenteita (structures) to refer to the sentence’s syntactic features. The term can refer to a range of phenomena tied to sentence structure, including word order, phrase structure, subordination, and agreement patterns, while acknowledging that syntax interacts with semantics and morphology in the study of language.

Unlike a specific theory, syntaktisia is a descriptive and functional form used across languages to discuss syntax in Finnish texts. It is common in academic writing, grammar descriptions, and language-education materials, particularly when listing or analyzing multiple syntactic features. The form illustrates Finnish morphology in action, showing how adjectives inflect for number and case to align with the nouns they describe. The corresponding singular forms are syntaktinen (nominative) and syntaktista (partitive singular).

See also: syntax, Finnish grammar, linguistic morphology.