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As an art form that began to be popular in the last century, it has come into the view of linguists more frequently today.Between its lines, vivid expressions such as “city can sleep”,“animals can talk to each other” and “memory can dance” often appear. This abnormal writing skill refers to a unique linguistic phenomenon------Selective Restriction Violation(SRV) explained by Noam Chomsky and is often associated with “metaphor” according to generative grammarians and cognitive linguists. In this research article, 10 representative sentences from popular musics’list in recent years were selected in order to explore more about this phenomenon in music field. After a detailed analysis, it is found that it appears frequently and The author prefers to use the technique of “replacing concrete nouns with abstract nouns”(9 from all 10 sentences) although it is a special linguistic phenomenon. The underlying reason for writing in this way might be that metaphorical expressions can not only make the sentence more vivid, but also help readers more accurately understand the ideas which authors want to express. |\n| Article history\u003Cbr>Received: May 08, 2021\u003Cbr>Accepted: June 24, 2021\u003Cbr>Published: August 31, 2021\u003Cbr>Volume: 12 Issue: 4\u003Cbr>Advance access: July 2021 |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None |  |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Head and Modifiers Rule, Selective Restriction Violation, Noam Chomsky,\u003Cbr>Lyrics,\u003Cbr>Metaphor |  |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nHockett(1960) pointed out that one of the characteristics of learned a language is to master the grammar rules of that language, and can use these rules to create an infinite number of sentences. In addition, knowing these grammar rules can help learners distinguish sentence structure and spot the head and modifiers(Miller,2016) . Interestingly, the head of a sentence is usually played by a verb, which also controls the subject and object of the sentence, called selectional restriction(SR) . For example, if the subject of a sentence is “singing,” then in normal expression the subject of the sentence needs to bea person, not an animal, except for those Disney movies. SR can be defined from different branches of linguistics. As is known to all of us, in a variety of conversations and texts, SR can be used everywhere.This is the embodiment of the normative nature of language. However, as mentioned earlier, animals in Disney movies and other novels can talk, sing, and dance. It sounds funny, but do exist. This anomaly is called“selectional restriction violation (SRV)”. Similarly, VSR are also exist in literary language frequently and achieve some particular effect. As stated by Brinton (2000) that figurative uses of language (personification, metaphor, etc.) routinely violate or break SR, and figurative language is not a “normal”  \nlanguage. Surely, literal words could be easily understood whether in contexts or in dictionary, whereas figurative/metaphorical speech has some extra meaning. SRV used has put forward metaphorical interpretation at the semantics levels in linguistics. As a result, SRV usually requires metaphorical interpretations. On the other hand, it appears frequently in literature works such as poem, song,and novel.  \nThis research seeks to shed light on the application of SRV in lyrics and it based on three notions:1.SR theory 2. SRV.3 . SRV in lyrics. 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The analysis finds that replacing concrete nouns with abstract nouns is preferred, occurring in 9 out of 10 sentences.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the research questions of this study?\",\"answer\":\"The study asks which types of SRV are frequently used in the selected lyrics and what underlying reasons explain those selectional restriction violations.\"}]","Advances in Language and Literary Studies - A Short Research on the use of Selectional Restriction Violations among Lyrics | PDF",13]