Bergin's law

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Bergin's law is a grammatical law of Old Irish. It is named for the linguist Osborn Bergin (1873–1950), who identified it.

Bergin's law states that while in Old Irish the normal order of a sentence is verb–subject–object, it is permissible for the verb, in the conjunct form, to appear at the end of the sentence.[1]

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  1. ^ Collinge, N. E. (1985). The Laws of Indo-European. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Vol. 35. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 978-90-272-8638-3.