This Corpus of Song Lyrics ("Songkorpus") is designed for linguistic research as well as for related disciplines such as media studies, cultural and literary studies, the social sciences, and musicology. It comprises multilayer-annotated texts and is intended for scholars with a scientific interest in the language of contemporary German pop music.

The corpus also enables empirical analyses of linguistic and stylistic features on:

To learn more about the corpus, please see here.

Recommended citation (English):

Schneider, Roman (2020): A Corpus Linguistic Perspective on Contemporary German Pop Lyrics with the Multi-Layer Annotated "Songkorpus". In: Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). Marseille: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 835-841. [PDF]

Recommended citation (German):

Schneider, Roman (2022): Zwischen Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit: Songtexte in der deskriptiven Sprachforschung. In: Sprachreport 1/2022. 38-50. [PDF]

International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN): 817-265-743-692-9