Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of newly-coined lexical units, which have entered the English language during the period of COVID-19 pandemic. Special attention is paid to etymological, morphological and semantic peculiarities of «denotative» neologisms which have been coined to name new phenomena (quarantine, distant work and study, vac-cination, self-isolation, restrictions, imposed on moving in space and travelling, etc.). In addition, the paper contains the analysis of reasons for an extremely wide spreading of «denotative» neologisms, related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the modern English language, as well as their active acquisition by other national languages.Besides, the article investigates the peculiarities of lexical units which may be regarded as «connotative» neolo-gisms, or emotionally colored lexemes, belonging mainly to the colloquial style and expressing the speaker`s attitude to new phenomena. The research shows that neologisms, belonging to this group, may be associated with ironical naming of the pandemic, contain the evaluation of people`s habits, their behavior in the family, at work, in public places, as well as their conduct in the Internet during the pandemic. In addition, the article offers psychological argumentation, explaining a wide occurrence of emotionally colored «coronavirus» neologisms, possessing negative connotations.
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