kielitieteellisessä

Kielitieteellinen is an adjective in Finnish meaning "linguistic" or "pertaining to linguistics." It describes phenomena, methods, or findings related to the scientific study of language. The form kielitieteellisessä is the inessive singular, used to indicate “in linguistic contexts” or “in the field of linguistics,” as in kielitieteellisessä tutkimuksessa meaning “in linguistic research.”

The term is built from kieli, language, and tiede, science, reflecting its origin in kielitiede, the Finnish word for linguistics. It is widely used in compound nouns and phrases, such as kielitieteellinen tutkimus (linguistic research) or kielitieteellinen näkökulma (linguistic perspective). Like other Finnish adjectives, kielitieteellinen inflects for case and number, producing forms such as kielitieteellistä, kielitieteellisiä, and kielitieteellisessä, depending on the sentence.

Scope and usage: Kielitiede encompasses subfields including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, historical linguistics, typology, and computational linguistics. Research methods range from descriptive and theoretical modeling to experiments, corpus analysis, and fieldwork. The adjective kielitieteellinen commonly appears in discussions about language structure, language use, acquisition, and language change.

Context in Finnish writing: In academic Finnish, kielitieteellinen is a standard descriptor for topics within linguistics. The inessive form kielitieteellisessä situates statements within the discipline, for example in kielitieteellisessä tutkimuksessa or kielitieteellisessä näkökulmassa, illustrating how Finnish inflects adjectives to express context and modality.