Conectores, gramaticalización e polaridadeo caso de ere " tamén" na lingua vasca

Resumen

Grammar analyzes the structural relationships between the constituents of a clause, whereas the task of pragmatics is to study (non-structural) relationships between clauses in a coherent text. This paper explores the hypothesis of a universal grammar change concerning clausal constituents that acquire new text-level pragmatic or grammatical functions without losing their original clausal functions. The Basque connector ere �too / also� shows that grammar and pragmatics are closely related (structurally). Unlike too / also, ere has a non polarity-sensitive free syntax. However, grammaticalized units containing ere are involved in downward-entailing negative polarity. These grammar changes are further described as a process of (grammatical / pragmatic) acquisition or loss of additive / scalar and focal true presuppositions.