Principales rasgos gramaticales del español de El Salvador

Abstract

AbstractThis work offers an in-depth description of the main morphosyntactic (and lexical) features found in present Salvadoran 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 ofhasta (que)anduna mi amiga— as well as some specific patterns —such as the prominence of -adoand -ososuffixes,utualitoadverb,algotropronoun and old expletivelo— in present-day Salvadoran Spanish, some of which remain to be incorporated in the Academy grammar (simasitoadverb,al no más+ infinitive locution).