Phinian

Nouns
Phinian nouns are not inflected for case, gender, and number; however, there exists a system of deverbial, denominal, and de-adjectival derivation, by morphological affixes, that produces nouns.

Verbs
Phinian verbs are not inflected for mood, voice, person, number, tense, or aspect. Like nouns, there also exists a system of denominal, deverbial, de-adjectival verbs. Furthermore, factatives, resultatives, and causatives are regularly derived morphologically.

Derivation

 * Suffix -s derives agentives nouns from transitive verbs and reflexive objects from intransitive ones.
 * Suffix -ʔ derives intransitive verbs from nouns and dimunutives.
 * Infix -r- is an intensive, forming adjedtives in the comparative degree; the -r- infix must be distinguished from lexical -r-, which are part of many roots.
 * Infix -j- changes transitive verbs into intransitive verbs and vice versa, creates relative verbs, imparts reflexive value, and possesess a range of other meanings; however, it rarely appears as a analyzable affix, and -j- is usually considered lexical.
 * Prefix m- has an intransitivizing and stativizing function on verbs and marks inherent components when applied to living things, e.g. tsjek "foot" contra m-tsjek "root, foundation".
 * Prefix n- has a
 * Prefix s- derives causative verbs.
 * Prefix h- derives resultative verbs and stative adjectives from verbs.

Syntax
Since nouns are not marked for case, and there is no verbal and adjectival agreement, word order is key to conveyance of meaning. Phinian has a predominantly SVO order, though the object may be fronted for emphasis. The verb may under no circumstance precede the subject in prose.