Building on the analysis of the Gungbe tense and aspect markers above, this chapter proposes a new analysis for the Gungbe imperfective and related clauses in terms of a biclausal structure. It suggests that the Gungbe imperfective marker selects for a small clause headed by a nominalizer ‘quasi null morpheme’. This morpheme encodes the feature [+n] associated with a nominalizing functional head that projects as the left-periphery of the small clause.
Keywords: Gungbe imperfective, clauses, biclausal structure, quasi null morpheme