ilmaistavat
Ilmaistavat is a Finnish linguistic term that appears in some theoretical discussions to denote the parts of a proposition that are explicitly expressed. The word is built from the verb ilmaista, meaning “to express,” and a nominalizing or adjectival suffix pattern that yields a sense of “expressible” or “things to be expressed.” In practice, ilmaistavat is not a common everyday word; its use is characteristic of analytic writing on meaning, phrasing, and information structure, where researchers distinguish expressed content from what remains implicit or contextually implied.
In analyses where it is used, ilmaistavat refers to the content that a speaker chooses to state
Examples, in English for illustration: in the sentence “Two cats slept on the mat,” the ilmaistavat would
See also: ilmaisut, ilmaisu, ilmaiseminen, semantics, information structure.