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language (i.e. Hale 1982) I show that this data cannot be accounted for by an analysis of overt arguments as adjuncts (i.e. Jelinek1984). I present data which suggests that Binding Condition C holds in Mi'gmaq, differences in available scope interpretationswhich suggests different structures, and hints at a movement analysis, as well as a variety of word order asymmetries.Cynthia Hansen (Grinnell College) Session 96Using siblings to count: making sense of the Iquito (Zaparoan) numeral systemThis paper describes the numeral system in Iquito (Zaparoan; Peruvian Amazonia) and discusses the evidence for languagecontact found within this system, particularly in the terms for three and four. Although no synchronic derivation exists for theseterms, I propose that they are analyzable diachronically as 'fraternal' forms (cf. Epps 2006, Hanke 2005, Green 1997), where theetymological source for three correlates with not having a sibling and four correlates with having a sibling. While such a strategyis considerably rare cross-linguistically, it is surprisingly widespread within Amazonia, and Iquito provides an interesting datapoint for understanding this diffusional process.Kristin Hanson (University of California, Berkeley) Session 17Catalexis and ternary rhythms in Garifuna stressIn Belizean Garifuna, stress falls on the first or second syllable of a word and every third syllable thereafter except the last:fadígilièru 'porcupine'; márihatìna 'I don't/didn't doze'. This pattern supports incorporation into phonological theory of twopossibilities already proposed on analogy with poetic meter. Catalexis (Kiparsky 1993) allows a peripheral position to remainunrealized by segmental material. Resolution (Hanson and Kiparsky 1996) allows a foot's requirement of a heavy head to be metby a trochaically grouped pair of light syllables. Together these allow intial stress and ternary rhythms within an iambic system,in Garifuna as in English meter.Magnus Pharao Hansen (Brown University) Session 99Nestor Hernandez-Green (CIESAS DF)Rory Turnbull (The Ohio State University)Ditte Boeg Thomsen (University of Copenhagen)On authority and authenticity: navigating the micro-politics of language revitalizationHow do we as fieldworking linguists navigate the micro-politics of a speech community in which linguistic authority iscontested? How do we approach the quest for linguistic accuracy when community linguistic norms are continually undernegotiation? We explore approaches to these dilemmas through a fieldwork experience with an endangered language in Mexico,in which a community effort for revitalization is complicated by community internal contestations of speaker authority. We urgelinguists working with revitalization to develop strategies for dealing with contested linguistic standards and with the effects ofinterpersonal and socio-political conflict on project outcomes.Gísli Rúnar Harðarson (University of Connecticut) Session 48Layered hierarchies in Icelandic compoundsIn this paper I argue, based on evidence from Icelandic, for a more articulated structure to account for the limitations onconstructing compounds. Compounds contain two layers, in which different types of modifiers, i.e. stems and inflected modifiers,are merged respectively. Elements at each layer are ordered hierarchically, according to the type of relation they hold between theelements and the head. The semantic compatibility and the hierarchy of relations account, in part, for the limitations on recursionin right branching structures.Boris Harizanov (University of California, Santa Cruz) Session 17Clitic doubling as movement and multiple copy spell-outA major question about clitic doubling of verbal objects is whether it can be analyzed as the semantically uninterpretablemorphophonological reflex of predicate-argument agreement. Based on evidence from binding and quantifier stranding inBulgarian, I argue that clitic doubling in this language signals, instead, an A-movement relation between a doubled argument anda head in the extended verbal projection. In particular, I analyze the clitic as a reduced articulation of the raised argument’s highercopy. Thus, this approach views clitic doubling as an interface phenomenon which results from the interaction of independentlymotivated syntactic and morphophonological operations.158