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The production of this book has been generously sponsored by the Stichting Bibliographie Linguistique, Leiden.This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC-ND License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited.Cover illustration: A group of young people using sign language in a discussion. Photo courtesy of Andries van Niekerk, National Institute for the Deaf, South Africa, http://www.nid.org.za. Andries van Niekerk is currently working on a Dictionary of South African Sign Language.

It has recently been shown by especially [1] through [4] and [12] for Russian and by [8] and [9] for Polish that conjunctions corresponding to Dutch sinds (cf. also [1], [2], [3]) and English since (cf. also [7], [10]) have temporal functions, which are subject to restrictions on the choice of tense and aspect. Ultimately these restrictions can be related to the semantic input of tense and aspect into complex sentences with these connective items. For Polish extensive data provided by corpus research enabled us to shed light on the usage and restrictions in this area and also to establish which constellations with particular conjunctions are more or less likely or not possible (cf. [8], [9]). In the present contribution we present freshly sourced quantitative Slovak SNK-corpus data. We consider the sixteen logically possible tense-aspect constellations, and the Slovak connective items: odkedy; odvtedy, čo / ako; od chvíle, keď / čo / ako; od tých čias, čo / ako; od tej doby, čo / ako. This quantitative data study is intended to pinpoint the areas of future research; for this purpose at certain instances comparisons are made with Polish, the only other language we have such data for to date.

The production of this book has been generously sponsored by the Stichting Bibliographie Linguistique, Leiden.This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC-ND License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited.Cover illustration: the name of the Constitutional Court building (Johannesburg) written in eleven official languages of South Africa.

The production of this book has been generously sponsored by the Stichting Bibliographie Linguistique, Leiden.This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC-ND License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited.Cover illustration: the name of the Constitutional Court building (Johannesburg) written in eleven official languages of South Africa.