On the neologisms in Serbian from the viewpoint of corpus preparation for the compilation of the Matica srpska multivolume dictionary of contemporary Serbian

The paper reaches the following conclusions: 1) there is an increasing number of new words in the Serbian language, as well as in all other language, 2) new words nowadays do not originate just because new realia need naming, but the need for straightforward expression and language economy plays an important role in motivation, 3) lists of new words point to the degradation of language culture, to the reduction of the journalistic register to conversational, and to the banalisation of Serbian lexis, but also that of other languages, 4) there is a growing number of occasionalisms (expressive authorial idiosyncrasies), which demand caution in lexical standardisation, 5) the path from idiosyncrasy to neologism can have a varying dynamic, so the lexicographer is obliged to rate the usualisation degree of the lexeme that has to be entered into a descriptive dictionary of the standard language, 6) descriptive dictionaries of the standard language should be supplied with neologisms, but not with idiosyncrasies, 7) parallelly with dictionaries of contemporary Serbian, dictionaries of neologisms should also be compiled, then their usualisation degree should be observed, so that only those that ?matured? from idiosyncrasies into neologisms could be entered into standard language dictionaries.