Abbreviative Derivatives of the Lexical and Semantic Group of “Names of Persons”

The article describes the results of the analysis of abbreviation derivatives with the meaning of the name of persons carried out taking into account sociolinguistic and historical-cultural factors; a significant number of abbreviations presented in the article can be attributed to neologisms that have not previously been subjected to a scientific description but actively used in modern speech and are reflected in the National Corps of the Russian language or in the texts of modern media and in the Internet forum materials. The features of the functioning of these units, the formation of paradigmatic and syntagmatic connections arising at the level of semantics are shown; the high frequency of the appearance of variability in writing many of the abbreviations is noted; an attempt was made to systematize the units considering the basis of well-known classifications; the conclusion is made about the place of abbreviations in the system of modern Russian language.