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