The Agreement of Existential Haber in the Vernacular Speech of Granada.

This article examines the morphosyntactic variation involving the impersonal verb *haber* ("to be" or "to exist") in the vernacular speech of Granada, focusing on the rare pluralisation of *haber* when followed by a plural noun phrase (NP), a usage traditionally considered ungrammatical in normative Spanish. Through quantitative analysis of 223 occurrences from the AGENDA-GRAN corpus, the study finds that plural agreement with *haber* is exceptionally scarce in Granada (1.3%), contrasting with higher rates in other Spanish-speaking regions such as Valencia and the Canary Islands. Linguistic factors like verb structure and NP features show limited influence, and social variables such as age, gender, and education do not significantly condition this variation in Granada. The findings suggest that, contrary to expectations for an innovative variety, Granada's speech aligns more closely with the conservative national standard regarding this grammatical phenomenon.