Morphology

Nordsippisk favors light-to-moderate agglutination.

Each productive affix should have a stable, narrow function. Affixes may stack when the resulting meaning is sensible.

A form may be grammatically parseable even when it is semantically ridiculous.

Root invariance

Affixation does not rewrite a root.

timb
timb-er
timb-ing
timb-de

Morpheme ordering

For nouns:

ROOT → NUMBER → DEFINITENESS → POSSESSION

Example:

mann-ar-en-s

• mann — man/person
• -ar — plural
• -en — definite
• -s — possessor

roughly: the men’s