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What is the focus of the present study?
Identifying the type of word-formation processes associated with COVID-19 neologisms in English
How many COVID-19-inspired neologisms were compiled for analysis?
208
What was the most discrete type of word-formation process identified in the analysis?
Blending
Where did the researchers gather the COVID-19-inspired neologisms for their corpus?
Social networking websites, search engines, blogs, and news articles
What has become part of our lives as a result of the surge of new words and phrases accompanying the COVID-19 outbreak?
New lexical and sociolinguistic changes
Explore the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the English language through the creation of new words and phrases. Discover how lexical and sociolinguistic changes have become integrated into everyday life.
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