Joseph Denooz

Opera latina : le nouveau site Internet du LASLA

Abstract Since 1961 the Laboratory for statistical analysis of ancient languages (LASLA) at the University of Liège has recorded a high number of ancient Latin texts in a computer format. For each of the approximately 1,800,000 words of the corpus lexicological, morphological and syntactical information has been entered. The complete data bank is now accessible through the Internet: an inquiry software package makes it possible for any researcher to look up all occurrences of a specific language feature either in the whole corpus or in the works of a given writer. Research can be done either on a lexis item, or on a type of subordination, or again on the basis of morphological features. The system, which still has to be further developed, is available for anyone who files a request.

L’interjection dans un corpus d’auteurs latins

Summary Though they have hardly been studied so far whether by ancient or modem grammarians, interjections, which make up a highly heterogeneous category, are items of discourse the use and stylistic value of which seems to depend on several factors. While the Ancients - among them Aulus Gellius - had already noticed that a particular interjection could only be used by men and some other by women, it has so far never been established that a writer or a literary genre could have an impact on the use of interjections. The present paper examines, on the one hand, the frequency with which interjections are used in a Latin corpus consisting of 1,600,000 words and. on the other, occurrences that specifically belong to prose, poetry or to this or that writer.