WORD-FORMATION INNOVATIONS IN MODERN ENGLISH OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERIOD
The article discusses the essence of the concept of "neologism", establishes the difference between neologisms and occasionalisms, identifies the stages of their life cycle, the factors of occurrence and ways of formation of new words of the COVID-19 pandemic period in the English language. The study presents the analysis of neologisms selected from the BBC, The Spectator and other Internet resources, the description of these neologisms in terms of their morphology and semantics.