morfologisessa

Morfologisessa is an adjective in Finnish meaning relating to morphology, the study of form and structure in words and other organisms. In linguistics, morphology examines how words are built from smaller units called morphemes, including inflection, derivation, and compounding. In biology and related fields, morphology concerns the form and structure of organisms, such as shape, size, and arrangement of parts.

The form morfologisessa is the inessive singular of morfologinen, used to indicate “in a morphological context” or “in morphological analysis.” For example: “Morfologisessa analyysissä tarkastellaan sanan taivutusmuotoja” means in a morphological analysis the inflected forms of a word are examined. The term commonly appears in academic writing in Finnish, particularly in linguistics and biology.

Etymology: Morfologinen derives from morfologia (morphology), which originates from Greek morphe ‘shape’ and logos ‘study’ or ‘science,’ adapted into Finnish through terms for linguistic and biological morphology. Related forms include morfologia (morphology), morfeemi (morpheme), and adverbial morfologisesti (morphologically).

Usage and scope: In Finnish, morfologinen describes aspects of word structure, while morfologisessa specifies the grammatical case used in sentences. The concept is central to language analysis, language education, and comparative biology, where morphological features help classify, describe, or compare forms across languages or species.

See also: morfologia, morfeemi, taivutus, inflection, syntaksi, morphologia (in biology).