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This article describes the different ways of forming the plural forms of nouns and adjectives in the Romance languages, and discusses various hypotheses about how these systems emerged historically from the declension patterns of Vulgar Latin. ==Two types of plural marking== Romance languages can be divided into two broad groups depending on how the regular plural forms of nouns and adjectives are formed. One strategy is the addition of the plural suffix ''-s''. For example: *Spanish: ''buena madre'' "good mother (sing.)" → ''buenas madres'' "good mothers (plur.)" Modern languages that have this type of plural suffix include Catalan, French, Occitan, Portuguese, Romansh, Sardinian and Spanish. The other strategy involves changing (or adding) the final vowel: *Italian: ''buona madre'' "good mother (sing.)" → ''buone madri'' "good mothers (plur.)" The main examples of modern Romance languages exhibiting this type of plural marking are Italian and Romanian. Broadly speaking, languages spoken in areas to the north and west of Italy typically have ''s''-marking of plurals, while languages spoken in central/southern Italy and to the east of Italy have vocalic marking of plurals. The historical development of these two distinct types of plural morphology is an important and controversial topic in Romance philology. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Romance plurals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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