Abstract
AbstractThis 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 ofcon todo yand the pluralization of impersonalhaber― as well as some specific patterns ―such as the prominence of -adaand -ecosuffixes,algotropronoun and expletivelo― in present-day Honduran Spanish, some of which remain to be incorporated in the Academy grammar.
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