Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007, 1–13. issn 0929–7332 / e-issn 1569–9919 © Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap A ‘mini’ relative clause analysis for reduplicated attributive adjectives* Enoch O. Aboh Universiteit van Amsterdam 1. Introduction In Gungbe (Kwa), predicative adjectives follow the modified DP (1a). ese adjec- tives show verbal properties: ey combine with tense/aspect markers (1b–c) and undergo predicate cleſting similarly to lexical verbs (1d–e). (1) a. Àvún lf kló b. Àvún lf ná kló c. Àvún éhè nf kló dog Det big dog Det Fut big dog this Hab big ‘e dog is big’ ‘e dog will get big’ ‘Such dog gets big’ d. Kló àvún lf kló tàùn e. Gbó àvún lf gbó big dog Det big very bark dog Det bark ‘e dog is very big’ ‘e dog barked’ is pattern extends to most Gungbe predicative adjectives, except for adjectives denoting color, size, and shape. ese take a verb, which combines with tense/ aspect markers and undergoes predicate fronting, unlike the adjective (2). (2) a. [Àvún lf] *(2ì) yù b. Àvún lf ná *(2ì) yù dog Det resemble black dog Det Fut resemble black ‘e dog is black’ ‘e dog will turn black’ c. * Yù àvún lf 2ì yù d. 2ì àvún lf *(2ì) yù black dog Det resemble black resemble dog Det resemble black ‘e dog is black’ ‘e dog is black’ Attributive adjectives occur between the noun and the determiner lf, but the ad- jectives in (1a) must reduplicate (3a), unlike those in (2) which don’t (3b). (3) a. Àvún kíkló lf b. Àvún yù(*yù) lf dog big.big Det dog black.black Det ‘e big dog’ ‘e black dog’