ssässäliitteet
Sässäliitteet is a term used in linguistic theory to describe a class of suffix-like morphemes that attach to bases such as nouns or verb stems to convey relational, deictic, temporal, and definiteness information. The concept is primarily discussed in typological and theoretical work and is not tied to a single natural language. The label combines the Finnish word liitteet (attachments or suffixes) with a syllabic element from the theoretical framework, and is treated as a descriptive category within morphophonology and morphology.
Sässäliitteet are described as affixes with agglutinative tendencies, forming complex morphemes through stacking. They often exhibit
The functional range of sässäliitteet includes locative and deictic indicating where something is relative to the
In descriptive studies, sässäliitteet help account for cross-linguistic variation in how spatial and temporal relations are
See also: affixes, morphological typology, locative case, evidentiality, definiteness.