sijaintitermi
Sijaintitermi is a term used in linguistics and language teaching to denote expressions that encode spatial location or position relative to a reference point. It refers to a broad class of linguistic units that specify where something is, where it occurs, or how it relates to other objects in space. Sijaintitermit can appear as nouns with locative meaning, adjectives that describe position, adverbs of place, or prepositional phrases, and may be realized by case inflections in languages with rich locative systems.
In Finnish grammar the concept is often linked to how location is encoded through cases, postpositions, or
The taxonomy of sijaintitermit is commonly related to frames of reference in spatial semantics: absolute (directional
Applications include language education materials that label and illustrate spatial terms, corpus studies of how location