The aim of the article is to describe the ways of the intensifying meaning?s formation as the secondary one. The author also aims at revealing the differences between correlative adjective and adverbial intensifiers which are in relation of syntactic derivation ( колоссальный - колоссально ).The method of semantic analysis is used. The texts of modern mass-media, belles-lettres literature, colloquial speech, the data of the Russian National Corpus serve as the material for the analysis.The following ways of creating the secondary intensifying meanings of adjectives and adverbs are described: 1. The transformation of the general evaluation meaning into the intensifying one ( хорошо заплатить ). 2. The transformation of the negative evaluation meaning into the intensifying one ( ужасно умный ). 3. The formation of the intensifying meaning on the basis of the qualitative one ( невероятный успех, сказочно прекрасный ). The trends of the high degree semantics? emergence are viewed in the aspect of the convergence of the conjoining units? meaning according to the formula “intensifier + the nomination of the intensified phenomenon”.The differences between adjective and adverbial intensifiers are described. The adverbs when being used as intensifiers more easily get rid of the qualitative semantic components and neutralize the pejorative evaluation just preserving the meaning „high degree? ( жутко интересный, зверски серь?зно ).
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