Abstract

SummaryThe study of tense variation in Latin texts can be renewed by using new devices, such as the lemmatized LASLA files and the Estela and Hyperbase programs (CNRS - UMR 6039 “Bases, Corpus et Langage”). Tense variation can therefore be related more precisely to various factors: writer, time period or literary genre. This will be exemplified by studying a corpus of classical historical texts, from Caesar to Suetonius. This paper will especially investigate the relations between tense variation and text sub-types, i.e. annalistic history, biography, military commentaries...

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