This diachronic study aims to explore linguistics phenomena of verbs and tenses in English song  lyrics across genres and time via corpus-driven approach. This study has three  objectives;  to   identify  the  most  frequent  lexises,  to  analyze  the  use  of  most frequent verbs, and to  analyze the use of most frequent tenses in English song lyrics. A  specialized  corpus  named   Diachronic  Corpus  of  English Song  Lyrics (DCOESL) consisting of Country, Pop, Rock, and R&B  genres from the years 1960 to 2009, was built for the analysis. Linguistics analysis of English  song lyrics corpus was used as the research design. Computational corpus instruments were used to  generate data. AntConc   generated   frequency   distributions   of   frequent   lexises   and    adjacent collocations  of  frequent  verbs.  CLAWS  POS  Tagger  annotated  verbs  and  tenses.  USAS identified semantic categories of verbs. Frequency dist.....

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