This Corpus of Song Lyrics ("Songkorpus") comprises multilayer-annotated texts and 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 is intended for scholars with a scientific interest in the language of contemporary German rock, pop, and hip-hop music. The corpus also supports empirical analysis and computational exploration of linguistic and stylistic features. Computational analyses can be conducted on:

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English-language reference for citing the corpus:

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]

German-language reference for citing the corpus:

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