Interferenţe multietnice reflectate în antroponimia maramureşeană (1987 – 2007)
Multiethnic Connections Reflected in the Anthroponymy of Maramureş (1987 – 2007)

Summary/Abstract: The present study is part of an exploratory research project called MULTIETHNIC CONNECTIONS IN THE ANTHROPONYMY OF MARAMURES, A CENTRAL EUROPEAN AREA. The grant has been won as a result of a tough competition during 2008 (CNCSIS, nr. 251/2008) and will be in force for 3 years. It aims at investigating the first names used in the North Western part of Romania, a Central European area that used to be a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire for centuries before the year 1918. It is a multilingual and multicultural area as there are Romanians, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Germans and Romany people that share together the above mentioned area. Moreover, there are people of other ethnic origins that have settled in the region after Romania has joined the European Union. Another important aspect of the research project is the fact that we focus on two completely different historical periods: firstly a totalitarian one, namely the communist regime, and secondly a democratic one that has begun in 1990. The core of the study focuses on the anthroponymic peculiarities of each ethnical group. An interesting fact is that on the one hand they are interrelated, but on the other one the differences tend to be cancelled in the context of the expanding and persisting process of globalization

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