Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University1005010.18287/2542-0445-2022-28-1-179-186Research ArticleSemantics and specificities of functioning of nouns with augmentative suffixes in informal internet-communication (based on the materials of Russian-speaking blogs)SkachkovaEvgeniya V.<p>lecturer of the Department of the Russian Language for Foreign Students of Natural Sciences Faculties, Faculty of Philology</p>evgeniyaska4kova@yandex.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8333-2147Lomonosov Moscow State University130420222811791860402202204022022Copyright © 2022, Skachkova E.V.2022<p>This article is devoted to the study of non-substantive augmentatives as part of the semantic-derivative category of the intensity of a non-procedural feature in modern Russian. The study is based on data extracted from the General Internet Corpus of the Russian Language (hereinafter referred to as GIKRYA), namely, from its LiveJournal subcorpus. The analyzed material is distinguished by expressiveness, emotionality and evaluativeness, which is reflected in its high linguo-creativity and allows studying not only ordinary, but also potential derivatives. The article analyzes the functional and semantic features of suffixes-augmentators of nouns, highlights the typical meanings of the most productive formants – -<em>ищ</em>-, -<em>ин(а)</em>, -<em>уг(а)</em> (орф. -<em>юг(а)), -юк(а)</em>. Substantive augmentatives are often used in statements with multiple intensification, interacting in context with lexical markers of feature intensification. 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