A corpus-based study of reporting verbs in academic Portuguese

Referring to other sources is a cornerstone in academic writing and one way of framing someone else’s ideas through reporting verbs. There little research on this phenomenon Portuguese. Most these studies analyze practices without focusing linguistic aspects (Bessa 2011; Hoffnagel 2010), with few verbs (Souza Mendes 2012). The aim paper how are used the Corpus Portuguese for Academic Purposes (CoPEP; Kuhn Ferreira 2020), corpus articles Brazilian European CoPEP was divided into two subcorpora: texts related Hard Science (engineering, exact-earth science, health science), another Soft (applied social science humanities). Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al. 2014) extract that before after lemma autor ‘author’. Results indicate have slightly higher frequency than Science, but both rely similar cite voice others. preference present tense comparison past future, active detriment passive voice, order ‘author + verb’.