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Taking as a basis of study a wide corpus of texts in the Sephardic language - chronologically located between the 16th and 20th centuries, and that belong to different genres of its literature-, always considering the widely known weakness of the linguistic border zones separating grammatical categories, and the relevance of pragmatic aspects within thisvariety of evolutions, the grammaticalization process and the corresponding reanalysis of the form cualmente are studied here. Cualmente, from its original identity as an adverb,adopts two new functions: conjunctive, as introducer of subordinate sentences essentially declarative, and those of mere discursive marker or expletive particle in direct style.