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The Orphan Accusative (OA) construction has long fascinated linguists. In their comprehensive study of the OA, Perlmutter and Oresnik (1973) not only laid out the core facts and issues, but also identified several factors likely to play a role in any successful analysis. At that time, however, the role of functional categories in extending lexical projections such as noun (N) beyond the NP was not properly understood. Moreover, their heavily transformational account invoked a derivational scenario that has long since been superseded by more transparent mechanisms. So my initial task in this paper is to update the account of Perlmutter and Oresnik (henceforth, P&O) and see what insights emerge. In doing so I follow recent arguments by Boskovic (e.g., 2005, 2008, 2009), Despic (2013), and others who state that one can associate a host of typological differences between languages where nominals canonically culminate in NPs and those where NPs are contained within a higher functional projection such as a determiner phrase (DP). In this light, I then consider how the OA facts—and the structures needed to understand them—might bear on the debate over where Slovenian fits in. I argue that Slovenian has a silent pronominal (a proN) which, given P&O’s Accusative Prediction Rule (APR), behaves as if animate. I further suggest

Orphans, Doubling, Coordination, and Phases: On Nominal Structure in Slovenian