Abstract

In the framework of an exploratory-descriptive research, our objective is to describe the lexical features of professional texts for academic purposes produced by students of Law and Medicine. We analyzed the TeProFAc corpus, made up of 123 texts of Law and Medicine. The features explored are terminology, collocations, verb tenses, subjectivity markers, initialisms, and abbreviations. We highlight that some categories made it possible to establish distinctions between disciplines: terminology, acronyms, abbreviations, and subjectivity markers, while the colocations and the use of verb tenses did not show disciplinary differences. In conclusion, the nature of each discipline is reflected in the lexical features of the texts produced by students of Law and Medicine.