todistuksellisiin

Todistuksellisiin is a Finnish linguistic term referring to a grammatical form derived from the adjective todistuksellinen, meaning evidential or related to evidence. In Finnish, todistuksellisuus denotes the broader concept of evidentiality—the way a language marks the source or reliability of information. Todistuksellisiin is the illative plural form of todistuksellinen, and it appears in descriptions of noun phrases that are marked as evidential in the context of a sentence or clause.

The form is primarily encountered in academic or descriptive grammar discussions rather than everyday speech. It serves as an example of how Finnish adjectives take case and number endings to agree with the nouns they modify, in this case signaling a plural noun phrase in the illative category. A typical usage would be in phrases describing evidential categories or forms, such as todistuksellisiin muotoihin or todistuksellisiin lauseisiin, where the meaning centers on forms or clauses that convey the source of information.

In practice, todistuksellisuus and related terms are part of the study of how languages encode evidential meaning. Finnish research often situates todistukselliset forms within a larger typological discussion of mood, evidentiality markers, and the interaction between source of information and sentence truth conditions. The term is thus a specialized descriptor within linguistics and Finnish grammar.

See also: Finnish grammar, evidentiality, todistus, todistuksellinen.