This project seeks to describe three pre-verbal markers shi, coo, and caa in the Anii language (Ghana-Togo Mountain, Togo and Benin).  The markers shi and coo target the aspectual reference of the clause they mark, with shi providing emphasis and coo providing a sense of certainty or importance. Caa marks a sense of violated prohibition in a non-future context and in the future provides a sense that an obstacle is preventing something from being done.