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The book "Working on the Glossary of Grammatical Terms. Reflective and Competency Exercises" offers a series of exercises on Spanish grammar based on the Glossary of Grammatical Terms (GTG) and the New Grammar of the Spanish Language (NGLE). These exercises are aimed at high school teachers and focus on identifying the basic units of syntax and syntactic and semantic functions. The book is organized into six types of exercises with different levels of difficulty, and each one includes references to the GTG and the NGLE to facilitate learning. The importance of including reasoned answers in the teaching of basic grammar and promoting reflection and the development of argumentative skills is highlighted. Studies and publications on the teaching of Spanish grammar are also mentioned, as well as the possibility of creating didactic resources on the grammar of other languages. The importance of building a reflective grammar based on solid scientific foundations is emphasized. [Extracted from the article]

As stated by Professor Brinton, most publications dealing with the field of English historical linguistics are focused on "linguistic levels of change - phonological change, morphological change, syntactic change, and semantic change" (p. 1) while those dealing with the history of English are mainly "organized chronologically" (p. 1), with chapters devoted to specific periods (i.e. Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English). Chapter 6, "Approaches to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization" (pp. 131-157) by Lieselotte Brems (Universitè de Liège) and Sebastian Hoffmann (Universität Trier), explains the concepts and utility of "grammaticalization" and "lexicalization" in English diachrony. The second case study is connected with the processes of lexical and grammatical change as they apply to comment clauses typically found in spoken discourse ( I you know, I guess, I mean, I think, you know, you see i ...), as well as the three main processes affecting comment clauses and discourse markers: grammaticalization, lexicalization, and pragmaticalization. Corpus linguistics and statistics with R: Introduction to quantitative methods in linguistics. [Extracted from the article]