Neologisms Of Coronavirus Pandemic Era: Lexema “Corona” As Productive Element Of Coroneologisms

The study of neologisms will always be a relevant topic, since the language is in constant development and the emergence of new lexical units expand the vocabulary and change lexicology. This article analyzes Russian neologisms that appeared during the pandemic and are presented in the Dictionary of the Russian Language of the Coronavirus Era published by specialists from the Institute for Linguistic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2021 Based on the way of derivation, coroneoloisms have been divided into 5 groups (words representing the adhesion of two content words; words with a lexeme “корона” shortened to the form “корон-” and a full stem of the second word, connected by a service morpheme o-; blends with a truncated second lexeme; blends with the application of several letters; suffix derivatives). The study identified borrowed words, a gaming form of derivation and expressive-evaluative coloring of contaminants, metaphorical and allusive images, as well as images of natural phenomena that contain coroneoloisms. The following methods were used in the course of the study: analysis, continuous sampling, classification, quantitative calculation. The practical significance of this study implies the possibility of applying the results obtained in the course of lexicology, in practical classes on the language.