ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken every area of society, and language (most especially its vocabulary), as a mirror to the world we live in, clearly reflects the deep mark it has left. What is more, this is the first great pandemic of the online era, which helps explain the huge influence this health emergency has had on lexical creativity since, thanks to social media networks, events have been narrated in real time for the very first time. This article seeks to study and characterise the lexical creativity of the Catalan language associated with COVID-19, based on an analysis of lexical neologisms related with this emergency situation and appearing during the pandemic. To achieve this, we have created two corpuses of neologisms - one terminology-related and another dealing with general language - and have analysed them linguistically and compared them. This process has helped us to provide a highly accurate portrayal of the lexical innovation in the Catalan language during this pandemic