The first three verbs were selected because they are often referred to as typical reported speech verbs, while the other three were typical cases of describing other speech properties, as shown in the examples below, lightly adapted from COMPARA: • A Jean contouà Betty e a Betty contou-me.
drury and colleagues compiled a large quotation corpus in the financial domain (drury et al., 2011;drury and Almeida, 2012) and used it to identify trends in that domain.