ABSTRACT
There is a paradigm of signs that can introduce the sources of information and that have been labeled by some authors as evidential (reportative)-citative: según, para, en opinión de, como (+ language verb), de acuerdo con, etc. In this chapter, based on a corpus of scientific articles from different areas of knowledge of the Humanities and Social Sciences, in addition to presenting some formal and polyphonic confluences and divergences between several of these reportative signs, we are going to focus on a qualitative analysis of según and de acuerdo con when they are constructed with a noun phrase, which may represent both the specific source that introduces other voices (enunciators), and the base that allows the elaboration of the information by the speaker. Specifically, we will present some reflections on the operation of these reportative-citative evidentials in the polyphonic configuration and in the information structure of the discourse. In the corpus some recurrences have been found that deserve description, such as the appearance of these evidentials with some productive epistemic operators in scientific writing, or some discursive patterns in which citational evidentials appear with encapsulating noun phrases.
