L’evidenza morfologica nell’era digitale: per un’integrazione di teoria e computazione

This article proposes a research perspective on morphological and lexical data based on an integrated approach that merges linguistic theory and computational analyses of a large quantity of textual data. Starting from a description of the units and processes of morphology, and of the issues they raise, we discuss to what extent these theoretical notions can be translated into the algorithmic procedures of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and what resources and methods are nowadays available to make morphological and lexical knowledge explicit within texts. At the same time, we explore the repercussions that the application of computational (but also psycho-/neuro-linguistic) techniques may have on our theoretical representations and on their plausibility.