Neology in coronavirus terminology in Spanish, Catalan, English and Italian

En este trabajo nuestro propósito es estudiar las voces nuevas surgidas a raíz de una crisis sin precedente provocada por la pandemia del coronavirus, que ha alterado las bases de nuestro sistema socioeconómico, sanitario, educativo, etc., de forma global. Para ello hemos elaborado un corpus de neologismos creados a partir de esta situación con el fin de comparar y contrastar el nivel de creatividad léxica de varias lenguas: español, catalán, italiano e inglés, su vitalidad y la influencia de unas lenguas sobre otras. Our principal aim is to study the new voices that have emerged as a result of an unprecedented health crisis that has altered our social, economic, political, educational, etc., system. To reach this objective we are going to develop a corpus of neologisms created as a consequence of this situation in order to compare and contrast the level of lexical creativity of various languages: Spanish, Catalan, Italian and English, their vitality as well as the influence of some languages on others.