Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Neologism" in Simple English language version.
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Ėpštejn's projective dictionary should be a collection of protologisms, a protologism being a new word, coined to designate a new phenomenon or to fill in blank spaces and semantic voids in the lexical-conceptual system, as he proclaimed in 2003.
This process [of lexicalization] does not seem to be coincidental because neologisms themselves are prone to go through certain stages of transformation. They begin as unstable creations (otherwise called protologisms), that is, they are extremely new, being proposed, or being used only by a small subculture
Linguists even have a word for such terms, protologisms (itself a modern neologism), a word that is new and not yet established beyond a small group.
