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The aim of the paper is to focus on mutual relations between various aspects of monolingual dictionaries that can be witnesses of history of vocabulary, a genre of pedagogical discourse or a symbol of national sovereignty. We will exemplify the study on the case of Gypsy loanwords testified in the two editions of the Catauro by Fernando Ortiz (1923, 1985), paying attention to changes suffered in their macrostructure as well as in the microstructure in both editions. We sustain that these lexicographic data could reflect the history of the Cuban Spanish vocabulary in the 20th century as well as the contemporary Cuban history in general and they could mirror the evolution of the Cuban identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Castilian grammar became a teaching discipline in Spain and Latin America in 1813, when its study was generalized; before that, Latin grammar was mandatory. This paper aims at making a structural and content analysis of the text Brevísimas nociones de Analogía Castellana (1891) taking into account the context of the teaching of this discipline in Cuba. The book was edited in Santiago de Cuba in 1891 by Julio Severiano Hernández y García, "Full Professor of incomplete teaching" and Director of the private college San Severiano; the book follows the peculiarities of the manuals of that time, but it also stands out, unlike others, by the use of example belonging to the colloquial level in the language of the region at the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]