Lexical semantic and derivational features of the names of persons during the coronavirus pandemic

Abstract

This article reviews the new lexical material related to the coronavirus pandemic. The empirical material was collected in the electronic database Integrum. The subject of the collected material are names of persons which were used in electronic mass media (newspapers, magazines, blogs, social networks). The volume of the lexical corpus is about 90 neolexemes. The collected corpus of innovations counts more than 600 words. The aim of the article is to describe the material from lexical and semantic, word-formation points of view, to demonstrate a language game.