Observatori de Neologia

The Observatori de Neologia (OBNEO), under the direction by Dr. M. Teresa Cabré, is a public-funded consolidated group within the Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. This project analyzes the phenomenon of the appearance of new words or neologisms in the usage, both for Catalan and Spanish. Since 1996 has been recognized as a consolidated research group of Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Objectives

• To have a corpus of neology of great diffusion in Catalan and Spanish, corresponding to the neology extraction from written and spoken texts.
• To describe and analize the resources used by Catalan and Spanish to update their lexic, with works carried out by our group and that are made known various publications and the participation in lectures, and communications.
• To publish periodically the new lexical creations, on the one hand, in papers with the neologisms documented yearly in Catalan and in Spanish, and, on the other hand, in dictionaries of neologisms.
• To contribute to the updating of the lexic of the the general dictionaries.
• To establish a workbench that allows the exchange with other groups of neology. The Observatori de Neologia leads a group of networks of observatories of neology.
• To promote and organize activities, scientific meeting and forums around theoretical and descriptive aspects of neology.

Methodology and resources

The OBNEO works with a neology extraction methodology and with a group of online resources.

Funding

The Observatori de Neologia has nowadays funding from the Filological Section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and the Centro Virtual Cervantes.

The Observatori de Neologia is a group with a specific recognition at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and it is part of the IULATERM group.