Cathal Doherty

List of John Benjamins publications in which Cathal Doherty is involved.

Article

Doherty, Cathal 2000 Residual verb second in Early Irish: On the nature of Bergin’s construction Diachronica 17:1, pp. 5–38 | Article

SUMMARY This paper seeks to establish that Early Irish is a ‘residual Verb Second (V2)’ language: i.e. one in which the V2 pattern is no longer general, but in which residues of an earlier V2 stage remain. The central argument is that the exceptional word order known as ‘Bergin’s construction’… read more