THE DYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONAL EXPRESSIBILITY PRINCIPLE (DCEP)

AbstractThe Dynamic Configurational Expressibility Principle (DCEP) is proposed as a framework for investigating a recurring communicative problem: individuals sometimes experience difficulty expressing complex subjective experiences, fragmented ideas, imagined scenarios, abstract concepts, or connections between apparently unrelated domains. Such difficulty is frequently described in terms of linguistic ineffability or the limitations of language. DCEP proposes that, in a subset of these cases, a contributing difficulty may lie not exclusively in the expressive resources of a language, but in identifying, organizing, validating, and translating conceptual content into an interpretable representation.The framework extends a pairwise account of conceptual relations to a variable-arity, higher-order, and time-varying representation. It distinguishes the number of conceptual units in a representation, the arity of an individual relation, and the temporal evolution of the representational structure. A single conceptual unit may present an expression problem without any multi-unit relation; conversely, a complex conceptual structure may contain unary predicates, binary relations, ternary relations, and higher-arity relations simultaneously.The proposed model represents conceptual content as a typed, role-labelled relational hyperstructure. It separates conceptual structuration, expressive encoding, and audience reconstruction; formalizes candidate variables and measurement procedures; proposes the Dynamic Configurational Expressibility Grammar (DCEG); specifies an eighteen-layer architecture; and defines a generalized primary case, VADTEC, together with ten comparative case classes. It also provides hypotheses, a comparative experimental protocol, negative controls, boundary-case analyses, reproducibility requirements, and falsification criteria.DCEP is presented as a research proposal rather than an established scientific law. No empirical findings are claimed. The framework's originality, measurement validity, incremental explanatory value, and generalizability require systematic comparison with existing research and direct empirical evaluation.Keywords: expressibility; ineffability; conceptual structuration; variable-arity relations; hypergraphs; dynamic conceptual structure; linguistic encoding; audience reconstruction; higher-order interaction; formal theory.