Abstract Emerging Terminologies and Exploration of Specialized Corpus. The Lexicon of Covid-19 in Romanian. This study discusses the issue of emerging terminologies analysed through quantitative and qualitative analysis of a specialised corpus. Thus, beginning from studies on terminological neologisms such as Rondeau (1984), Kageura (2002) and Humbley (2009) who state that emergent terminologies are formed as a result of a combination of terminologies already fixed in the language and terminological neologisms. Humbley (2009) also hypothesizes that most of the terminological units of an emerging domain are neologisms. Using this theoretical framework and working with a corpus of more than 400,000 words, we aim to observe the terminology of the emerging field of Covid-19. As objectives of this research we aim to answer the following questions: a) which are the most used monolexical terms of Covid-19 in Romanian, b) which are the most used plurilexical terms of Covid-19 in Romanian, c) is the emerging terminology of this field mostly composed of neological terms? The study is meant for researchers, teachers and students interested in corpus-based linguistic research.

Keywords: emerging terminologies, corpus linguistics, specialised corpora, neology, glossary