Behaghel's laws describe the basic principles of the position of words and phrases in a sentence.
They include the following cross-language principles: It is thus ensured that the utterances that the speaker finds important will remain in the thoughts of the listener, in that they are at the end of the sentence.
This name was introduced by William Cooper and John Ross (1975) in their study of English set phrases.
[1] English examples include "free and easy", "lock, stock and barrel", "kit and (ca)boodle", etc.
Michael O'Connor (1978) has observed a similar statistical preference in the case of Biblical Hebrew poetry.