The empirical validity of the projectivity hypothesis for Bulgarian is tested. It is shown that the justification of the hypothesis presented for other languages suffers serious methodological deficiencies. Our automated testing, designed to evade such deficiencies, yielded results falsifying the hypothesis for Bulgarian: the non-projective constructions studied were in fact grammatical rather than ungrammatical, as implied by the projectivity thesis. Despite this, the projectivity/non-projectivity distinction itself has to be retained in Bulgarian syntax and, with some provisions, in the systems for automatic processing as well.