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Advanced Reported Speech — Discorso Indiretto B2·Formal Written Reported Speech (Academic Register)
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Rule reminder

Academic reported speech in Italian uses: 1) verbs like asserire, sostenere, argomentare, ipotizzare, dimostrare, confutare; 2) the indicative is often preferred over subjunctive in academic citation; 3) infinitive constructions ('secondo X, il fenomeno sembra essere...'); 4) nominalization ('l'affermazione di X secondo cui...').

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Manzoni writes in his novel: 'La storia è la madre delle scienze.' How would an academic cite this?

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