The ENEOLI Special Session was one of the highlights of the 6th CINEO Conference, representing an important advance in the study of lexical innovation in Romance languages.

Held on July 8, 2025, at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and co-located with the 6.º Congresso Internacional de Neologia em Línguas Românicas (CINEO 2025), the event was organized by the COST Action ENEOLI (CA22126) and gathered a dynamic community of neology specialists.

With more than 30 participants from across Europe and beyond, the ENEOLI Special Session offered a distinctive platform for (inter)disciplinary exchange on cutting-edge topics on lexical innovation.

The workshop featured nine peer-reviewed presentations in four Romance languages (French, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish), organized into three thematic sessions: “Neology and Society”, “Lexical Innovation: Evolutions, Challenges and Applications”, and “Morphological Approaches”. 

The following papers were presented:

Christophe Gérard (University of Strasbourg, France)

👉Qu’est-ce qu’un néologisme militant? Essai de délimitation

Sabela Fernandez-Silva (Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso, Chile), Judit Freixa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

👉La neología sobre género en las lenguas de Europa: diseño y elaboración de un glosario multilingüe para su estudio y difusión

Anna Jamka (University of Warsaw, Poland)

👉La innovación léxica y el activismo antigordofobia en la red española: Nadie hablará de nosotras

Ana Salgado (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal), Raquel Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal), Ieda Maria Alves (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), John Humbley (Université Paris Cité, Paris, France)

👉A metaterminologia portuguesa da inovação lexical: problemáticas de equivalência e variação 

Bruno Courbon (Université Laval, Canada)

👉Histoire de la néologie au Québec : l’approche par les termes

Cécile Poix (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France) 

👉Vers une typologie multidimensionnelle des matrices lexicogéniques

Julie Andreu, Valerio Emanuele, Nathalie Lanckriet, Étienne Quillot (Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux Langues de France, Paris, France)

👉La néologie sémantique dans le cadre du dispositif d’enrichissement de la langue française: une étude diachronique

Ana Fernández Berrocal, Alexandre Rodríguez Guerra (University of Vigo, Spain)

👉Formantes, graos de neoloxicidade e percepción neolóxica en galego

Radka Mudrochová (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic), Andrzej Napieralski (University of Lodz, Poland)

👉La néologie du verbe – le cas des verbes préfixés dés- et dé- en français contemporain

A selection of the presented papers will be published in high-impact journals, such as Neologica and Etudes romanes de Brno.

The ENEOLI Special Session at CINEO 2025 emphasized the diversity and complexity of today’s neological research while also demonstrating the ENEOLI network’s growing capacity for collaboration.

The session reflected the interest in the work being carried out and the relevance of the research presented. It also served as a good opportunity to promote ENEOLI among non-members and foster new collaborations.

The ENEOLI COST Action wishes to thank the University of Coimbra and the CINEO Organizing Committee for creating this unique occasion for networking and sharing expertise in the fast-evolving field of lexical innovation!