Problem
Make up a fragment of a synthetic language. You should decide whether it will be agglutinative or fusional. Perform the following steps in order to create your language fragment. Be sure to write out the decisions that you make at each step along the way.
A. First, come up with a name for your language.
B. Next, create a small lexicon. It will contain ten words; you can choose to create ten nouns, ten verbs, or five of each. For each of your lexical items, you will need to specify a phonological form (using the IPA) and a meaning (using an English gloss).
C. Decide on four morphological functions that you will want to be able to perform: two should be derivational, and two should be inflectional. (Examples: marking nouns for nominal case; marking verbs as past tense, turning nouns into adjectives; turning verbs into nouns, etc.) Don't feel the need to restrict yourself to morphological functions found in English!
D. Decide what morphological process your language will use to perform each of these functions. Don't forget to specify how - if at all - these processes will interact with your language's phonology!
E. Write all of the possible derived forms and inflected forms that you can make based on the words of your language and the morphological rules that you have created. For each, tell both the form (using the IPA) and the meaning (using an English gloss).
F. Is your language fusional or agglutinative? What evidence shows that this is the case?