Lexicography of Coronavirus-related neologisms: An introduction 1 Background This volume of Lexicographica. Series Maior focuses on lexicographic neology and neological lexicography concerning COVID-19 neologisms, featuring papers originally presented at the third Globalex Workshop on Lexicography and Neology (GWLN 2021 1 ). GWLN 2021 was held online in conjunction with Australex 2021, 2 with a focus on neologisms arising in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Papers discussing various issues

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... ated to the detection of such neologismsincluding new words, new meanings of existing words, and new multiword unitsand their representation in lexicography and dictionaries were invited to offer cross-world views on lexicographic detection and representation of Coronavirus-driven neologisms for different languages. Similar challenges regarding COVID-19 neologisms and lexicography arise for any contemporary language, for example how to detect such neologisms (corpus analysis and editorial means of identification, evaluation of other data, e.g. blogs and chats) or how dictionary users can help with finding and informing about them. But also the extent of borrowing COVID-19 neologisms from other languages (and which ones), in contrast to the use of word formation processes to enlarge the Coronavirus-related vocabulary in a specific language, needs to be examined, and questions of prescriptive vs. descriptive lexicographic information on such neologisms need to be addressed. The GWLN series began as a single event conjugated with the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) at