A corpus-based study of semantic neology of the Covid-19 pandemic

This article presents a series of corpus-based studies to detect semantic neology in Spanish nouns in 2022, a year in which the Covid-19 pandemic still existed, but when another important global events were taking place, such as the Ukraine war, or economic inflation. We compared a corpus of texts from 2022 with a pre-pandemic corpus, considering four types of frequency calculation and keywords and taking into account collocations of the neologism candidates. The results indicate that the combination of keywords with texts grouped according to topic gives the best results for detecting semantic neology.