From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 35921
Date: 2005-01-15
>The only trace of the neuter which can be found in Western
>>This Latin pattern [singular in -o, plural in -a] has been preserved in
>both Italian and >Romanian. ... The common innovation is that adjectives
>qualifying
>>neuter plural nouns have the feminine plural form. Is there any
>>trace of this in Western Romance, or indeed in the western provinces
>>of the Empire?
>
>I can't think of any. And since the western languages generalise the -s
>plural, it would be no surprise if all traces of the plural in -a had
>disappeared. Likewise, I cannot think of any nouns which are masculine in
>the singular and feminine in the plural, for either Spanish or French, but I
>admit to less than perfect acquaintance with those languages!