Classical and Late Latin poetry. Looking for diachronic variations in the grammatical categories distribution

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In the framework of a LASLA research project on Late Latin poetry and the presence of Ovidian textual motifs in this poetry, this paper aims to precise if statistical analysis of textual data can help to detect common linguistic features in this poetry distinguishing it from the Latin Classical poetry. The study focuses on four Late Latin poets: Ausonius, Rutilius Namatianus, Prudentius and Claudian. As a starting point, we describe the statistical tools we will use in the paper to study the distributions of linguistic features through the Classical and the Late corpora. We then apply these tools to the distribution of various grammatical categories; parts of speech, cases, declension types, conjugation types, moods. We conclude by evaluating similarities and distances between the four Late Latin poets.