Affiliation:
1. Université de Montréal , Département de littératures et de langues du monde , Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, C.P. 6128, succursale Centreville , Montréal (Québec) Canada
Abstract
Abstract
This work offers an in-depth description of the main morphosyntactic (and lexical) features found in present Honduran Spanish, a lesser-known Central American variety. Text corpora and sociolinguistic surveys help us to provide an updated grammatical overview, which takes into account most categories: nouns and adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions and locutions, and illustrates with examples taken both from formal and informal settings. By comparing these features with previous grammatical descriptions, this study helps in identifying some common American features ―such as the use of con todo y and the pluralization of impersonal haber― as well as some specific patterns ―such as the prominence of -ada and -eco suffixes, algotro pronoun and expletive lo― in present-day Honduran Spanish, some of which remain to be incorporated in the Academy grammar.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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