Abstract
SummaryThough 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.
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