![]() People produce neologisms as a coping mechanism to overcome various stressors and reflect their pandemic-related experiences. L1 countries have the highest number of pandemic neologisms, prevalent or high-frequent pandemic lexemes, and unique word combinations. The word-formation processes that operated in the production of the pandemic lexemes are compounds, blends, affixation, acronyms, and back-formation. The psychosocial category of the pandemic lexicon constitutes the biggest category of words identified from the corpus. The study identified 590 pandemic-related words drawn from the News on the Web (NOW) corpus dating from January 2020 to October 2021. The present study utilized the News On the Web (NOW) corpus of to (1) produce a word-list of COVID-19 pandemic language classified as medical, economic, political, and psychosocial lexemes (2) identify the word-formation processes operating on the COVID-19 related vocabulary, and (3) determine which words are prevalent and unique in L1, L2 Asian, and L2 African varieties of the English language based on their occurrences in the corpus. Another kind of war that opens the floodgates for the passage of neologisms into the English language is the war on health during epidemics or pandemics. Wars and conquests have always opened the floodgates of new words and meanings into the lexicon of the English language. The result showed that the most productive process of creating English new words was affixation. Besides, there are also found the double word formation processes, such as j) folk etymology + compounding, k) compounding + affixation, m) blending + affixation, n) clipping + blending. The findings of this study showed that there are some processes in creating English new words, such as a) affixation, b) folk etymology, c) compounding, d) abbreviation, e) acronyms, f) borrowing, g) blending, h) clipping, i) back-formation. The data were presented in the form of table. Document analysis was used as the instrument to collect the data. Therefore, the research object was the lists of English new words from year 2012-2016. OED online is the online dictionary which consists of list of English new words. The researcher used qualitative research design in order to obtain the data from the document of OED online. The aims of this study were to identify the processes of word formation in English new words and to know which word formation processes were the most productive one(s).
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