Unexplored language phenomena (UNLAP): Identifying, documenting, and explaining the outer reaches of human expressive capacity

This program explores the outer reaches of the human language capacity. It breaks new ground by redirecting the linguistic inquiry towards the discovery and investigation of extraordinary language phenomena that remain undocumented. The world’s linguistic diversity is far from fully charted. Identification and examination of unknown phenomena in the grammars and vocabularies of understudied languages are crucial to our understanding of the full scope – or design space – of the human language faculty.