Taher Ben Khalifa

Violating the rules: grammatical deviations as a strategy for musicality in modern English songs

This study examines grammatical deviation in contemporary English song lyrics from both U.S. and U.K. It focuses on pop, hip-hop, and R&B songs that are released between 2000 and 2025. Drawing on a corpus of thirty widely consumed songs, this research integrates Systemic Function...