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It has been pointed out by Rudin (1988) that a parallel can be drawn between, on the one hand, the possible orders of fronted wh-phrases in a Bulgarian multiple constituent question and, on the other hand, English Superiority effects. Like Romanian, Bulgarian allows long-distance multiple wh-movement) In Bulgarian, as in Romanian, a subject whphrase has to come first in a string of fronted wh-phrases:
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Comorovski, I. (1996). Superiority. In: Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8688-7_4
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