A STUDY OF ENGLISH BLENDS RELATED TO COVID-19
covid-19, blend, word formation, neologism, словообразование, coinage, неологизм, бленд, блендинг, portmanteau word, лексическая контаминация, контаминант, ковид-19
The year 2020 was characterized by an unprecedented number of neologism and coinages that appeared in the English language under the influence of the pandemic of Covid-19. A significant proportion of these coinages is made up of blends, that is, word formations that consist of two source lexemes which merge or overlap. This paper purports to describe the Covid-related blends in the English language and analyse their structure. The article presents different approaches to a morphological classification of blends and makes a distinction between blends and clipped compounds. The analysis of the morphological structure of Covid-related blends showed that among these lexical formations, substitution blends prevail over overlap blends; a common type of blending is combining the first source word in its entirety with the final splinter of the second source word.