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Luca Capone1, Alessandro Lenci1
1CoLing Lab, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa, Italy luca.capone@fileli.unipi.it alessandro.lenci@unipi.it.
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Language models (LMs) call for a theoretical rethinking grounded within linguistics itself. Rather than signalling the "end of linguistics" or merely encouraging interdisciplinarity, LMs function as an empirical testing ground for formal linguistic concepts. They prompt a renewed examination of form-meaning mapping, theoretical autonomy, and the conditions under which computational systems can genuinely inform linguistic explanation.
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