Panorama général de la néologie espagnole actuelle : distribution des procédés de création lexicale dans le cadre du renouvellement de la langue

The aim of this study is to determine the relative proportions of the different types of word formation and their impact on contemporary Peninsular Spanish as indicators of lexical trends. The study is based on the analysis of a significant corpus obtained from the 2004 Alvar Ezquerra dictionary containing Spanish neologisms. The productivity of each category of neologism is established so as to determine their relative position one to another. S. Mejri suggests that suffixation is far and away the most important type of lexical formation in French. Is this also the case in Spanish ?