First-person-plural point of view notwithstanding, there's a dated quality to Brown's novel (in which hair is likely to be called tresses, books tomes and bars watering holes; where people pad softly, blink back tears, bark laughs) and a striking absence of contemporary references.
If plural fixed points are involved (and this is a common case), a global behavior of GC content transitions will be more complicated.
The Arab grammarians used the term ma‛nà, plural ma‛ânî to point to the content of the word, to its semantic component, in contrast to lafẓ, its phonic part; the pair ma‛nà/lafẓ is already found in Sîbawayhi (d. ca. 796).
The Italian title, "Ladri di Biciclette," takes the plural; part of the point of the movie is that theft is infectious -- it breeds more thieves.
This black American idiom has seeded so many variants — in Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia and the Middle East — that some historians of music no longer speak of a single hip-hop culture, but point to plural schools of hip-hop that have distinctive flavors.
Many trainers jabber about their fighters in the first-person plural, but as Liebling points out, Kearns took this practice to another level.
It makes zero sense to blame feminism or people (yes, there are men saying what I'm saying, plural) like me for pointing out an obvious fact: In order to ensure our safety as females, all males must be considered at least slightly suspect because of the hateful acts of a few.
Meanwhile, there exist plural clusters of fixed points, suggesting plural equilibria.
COMMENT: "Second to last sentence of the "Motivation" paragraph in the abstract: "regular expression" should be plural" RESPONSE: As rightly pointed out by the reviewer, we have corrected the above text in the manuscript.
It's also perfectly possible, as I've suggested in the magazine, that the original figure, assuming there was one, actually was this varied, or nearly so: charismatic leaders of oppressed peoples tend to be plural in character to the point of self-contradiction.
More specifically, what prevents immigration and emigration states from allowing plural citizenship at a certain point in time, resulting in various forms of quasi-citizenship, and what leads them to accept it at another point in time, making the categories of quasi-citizenship redundant?
