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]
References
[edit]- ^ Collinge, N. E. The Laws of Indo-European. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1985; p. 230