Drawing on cartographic assumptions that there exist discourse-related projections in the ‘vP periphery’(Belletti 2001), we explore two types of postverbal focalisation in Lamnso and Limbum (Grassfields Bantu). The first type places an expletive pronoun and / or a copula before a contrastively focused constituent. The activation of the expletive and/or the copula in object focalisation induces freezing and minimality effects on subject and verb extraction. These effects are circumvented by evacuating the object(s) from the vP and by smuggling (Collins 2005) the remnant vP to Spec-AspP. This allows the verb to value its aspectual features and the subject to raise to its canonical preverbal position. Object focalisation in SVO(O)sequences requires evacuation of the arguments from the vP and remnant vP movement to Spec-AspP. Verbal copulas are taken as grammaticalised focus markers that lexicalise the focus head and attract focalised elements in Spec-FocP, while the expletive pronoun lexicalises a low subject projection. The second strategy involves verb-subject reversal and apparently in-situ object foci. It correlates with information and contrastive focus. Its derivation involves focus movement without necessarily applying smuggling.