Abstract: Institutional research carried out in new word studies since 1970 led to
the publication of bibliographies of research on neology. It is shown how these
compilations first emerged in the field of lexicography to be taken up in
language planning and terminology. The article also includes an examination of
the relationship between neology and time. The meaning of the marker
“neologism” merits some thought. Two interpretations are possible: either the
marker refers to the date when a new word appears and is consigned to the
historical part of the dictionary article, or it refers to the perception of the
novelty of a lexical unit. The feeling that a word is new only lasts for a relatively
short time and varies from one word to another. Neology in this sense is a
temporary quality, which means that from a logical point of view the nature of
neology is quality-based – an accidental value, and not on quiddity, an essential
value.
