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.
Details
- Period: 2026-01-01 – 2031-12-31
- Funder: Riksbankens jubileumsfond
Samarbetsparter
Stockholm University, Lund University, Gothenburg University, Oxford Univer
UNLAP: Unexplored Language Phenomena
UNLAP research
Many of the world’s small languages are on the verge of disappearing forever. Some are spoken today by just a handful of people. In the research project UNLAP: Unexplored Language Phenomena, we document rare language phenomena all over the world, for the benefit of language research and future generations.
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UNLAP investigators
UNLAP is a cooperation between Uppsala University, Stockholm University, Lund University, Gothenburg University and Oxford University. Vi also have many co-researchers around the world.
UNLAP Lead investigator
Harald Hammarström, Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, travels the world to study and document rare and unique languages before it is too late.
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Stockholm University, Lund University, Gothenburg University, Oxford University
Project members
Contact
- info@lingfil.uu.se