Research on Hungarian personal names of the Sub-Carpathian region

Abstract

Research on the Hungarian personal names of the Sub-Carpathian region, Ukraine

This paper gives a summary of research on the Hungarian personal names of the Sub-Carpathian region, Ukraine. Initially, the Hungarian personal names of the region were mentioned only marginally in the works of Russian/Ukrainian dialectologists. After the establishment of the Hungarian Department of Ungvár (Uzhhorod) State University, local Hungarian personal names were more frequently studied by linguists. Research on the Hungarian personal names of the region has been rapidly progressing since the second half of the 1990s: fieldwork today is carried out by professors, PhD and undergraduate students. As a result, characteristics of local surnames, Christian names as well as bynames are nowadays regularly described in studies published partly in Hungary, partly in Ukraine.