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Larry M. Hyman made a good point when he said the following:

The … quality of the fieldwork mental state I’d like to discuss is a dedication to “whole language.” There are linguists who only work in phonetics, or only in phonology, or only in syntax. This is a luxury of the compartmentalization of academia. In the field, however, one cannot say, “Oh, that’s the syntax, I only do phonology.” … One can arrive in the field with the intention of working on tone, but other issues would come up. While this happens, the pull to act on things outside one’s original purpose is a typical feature of the fieldworker state of mind.

(Hyman, Larry M. 2001. Fieldwork as a state of mind. In Linguistic Fieldwork, ed. by Paul Newman & Martha Ratliff, 15-33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.).

Grammar, in the narrower sense, is considered to refer to the morphosyntax of languages; however, we oppose any definition of grammar that may shrink the inclusive nature of grammar-we believe grammar is virtually “everything” that one should know to be a fluent speaker of any given language, which is traditionally thought to have several subheadings such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse.

It is in that sense that we cannot agree with Hyman enough that we should employ a holistic approach to the study of language and its structure. Therefore, as some of you may have probably figured out by now, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that our interests in (descriptive) linguistics cover quite a wide variety of areas.

We aim to strategically and properly describe, analyze, and document as many aspects of any given language as possible in a clear and easy-to-access form that the work would serve humanity by preserving languages, one of the most critical legacies of human beings.

Some specific areas in which we’re interested include the following:

Jung-hoon: acoustic phonetics, computational aids to linguistic research, Optimality Theory, orthography design, morphosyntax, Role & Reference Grammar, discourse analysis, and syntax-semantics interface

Young-in: phonological analysis, morphophonemics, morphosyntax