João Ricardo de Mendonça wrote:
> On 5/20/06, Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
>
>>
>> Probably for the same reason Standard English lost the historic
>> nominative "ye", preserving the object "you". And, for that reason, why
>> some dialects use "them" instead of "they" or "me" instead of "I" and so
>> on. The object form seems to be the one to win out when case is lost in
>> English pronouns.
>>
>
> Like Western Romance languages, which take their plural forms from the
> Latin accusative. So Latin filias (acc.) gave Spanish hijas and
> Portuguese filhas (no case).
>
>
I take it you're using Western Romance to exclude Italian there? The
Italian plural being 'figli'.