ANALYSIS OF GERMAN NEOLOGISMS RELATED TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Abstract

The article studies German neologisms related to the coronavirus pandemic. The relevance of the study is due to the general focus of modern linguistics on the analysis of features of building of lexical meaning of neologism. In the course of the study, the concept of “neologism” was considered and clarified, semantic subtypes of neologisms associated with the coronavirus pandemic were identified and classified according to the thematic feature. The study concludes that the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most effective extralinguistic factors for expanding, replenishing, enriching and changing the vocabulary of the literary German language. The formation of neologisms associated with the coronovirus pandemic is based on native and borrowed vocabulary or a combination of them.