Methodological Proposal: Systematic Neology for Foundation-Model Corpora as a Candidate Disciplinary Field

This working paper articulates a methodological proposal for a candidate research direction concerned with the systematic coinage, ISO-704-aligned definition, and open documentation of new terms intended to be well-defined and discoverable for both human readers and automated indexing systems. The proposal takes as its evaluative framework the functionalist success-test of the Simion and Kelp conceptual-engineering programme. Its disciplinary status is acknowledged as pre-paradigmatic in the sense of Kuhn; the paper outlines conditions under which such a candidate direction could be evaluated by a practitioner community, including a reproducible terminology-engineering workflow, a public compendium as a shared knowledge base, and defensive-publication infrastructure for prior-art establishment. The paper does not claim to establish a paradigmatic discipline; it argues only that the minimum conditions for proposing such a candidate direction for open discussion are met. This is an independent research hypothesis produced without institutional affiliation or peer review, shared as a prior-art declaration under CC BY 4.0 to enable open scientific discussion. The work is offered for independent scrutiny and verification; the author works outside an institutional affiliation and welcomes correction. All claims are research hypotheses requiring independent verification. AI-transparency (EU AI Act, Art. 50): prepared with substantial large-language-model assistance; all content reviewed and validated by the human author, who retains sole responsibility. Author: Andreas Ehstand (Independent Researcher), ORCID 0009-0006-3773-7796. Part of the AUGMANITAI Research Programme working corpus (concept-DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20161494).