leksikaalisista

Leksikaalisista is a Finnish word form derived from leksikaalinen, meaning related to the lexicon or to lexical items. In linguistics, leksikaalinen refers to elements that belong to the content layer of language and carry semantic content, as opposed to grammatical or functional elements.

In linguistic theory, lexical items (or lexemes) include core words such as nouns, main verbs, adjectives, and some adverbs and numerals. These items typically bear the primary meaning of a sentence and can undergo various morphological processes to express features like tense, number, case, or comparison. Grammatical or functional elements—such as conjunctions, prepositions, or articles—primarily serve syntactic or relational roles rather than carrying substantial lexical meaning.

The form leksikaalisista is the ablative plural form of leksikaalinen in Finnish. It is used when describing properties or relationships involving multiple lexical items, for example in phrases like leksikaalisista sanoista (“from lexical words”). This illustrates how Finnish inflectional morphology marks case and number on adjectives and related forms.

In practice, the concept of “lexical” contrasts with “grammatical” or “functional” categories in both descriptive and computational linguistics. It also underpins areas such as lexicography, where the focus is on compiling and defining lexical items, and in corpus linguistics, where lexical distribution and frequency inform analyses of language use.