The phenomenon of agent defocusing
a discussion of the relevance of computational resources for linguistic studies
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https://doi.org/10.14393/DL52-v16n4a2022-4Keywords:
Corpus Linguistics, Academic writing, Tools for corpus analysis, Agent defocusingAbstract
Although expanding, empirical linguistic research on the Portuguese language is still far from reaching its full potential. We believe that this might be due to some researchers lack of awareness of resources already available for free. In this article, we present some Corpus Linguistics tools and a corpus of academic writing in Portuguese (CoPEP), and how they can be used to explore the phenomenon of agent defocusing in academic articles published in Brazil and Portugal. For this, we use existing resources to annotate and make available, free of charge and online, the CoPEP, an extremely useful corpus for linguistic investigations on academic Portuguese.
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