Kravchenko V. Anthroponymy of Priazovye Greeks in its Relations with the Ukrainian and Russian Anthroponymic Systems.

The dissertation deals with the investigation of Priazovye Greeks’ personal names. Priazovye Greeks anthroponymy is an insufficiently explored area of the study of personal names. Thorough analysis of regional and ethnic anthroponymy enables to reveal the peculiarities of national anthroponymic system of Northern Priazovye Greeks and the attributes connecting it with the Ukrainian anthroponymic system in general. The focus is made on the present-day surnames, family nicknames and street names of Rumei and Urum Greeks. In the course of the investigation the lexical basis of anthroponyms was defined, the semantic classification of the material was carried out. The author singled out the productive types of anthroponymic nomination, described the most typical word-formation models of surnames in the Greek anthroponymic system. The influence of Russian and Ukrainian anthroponymic traditions on the formation of the Priazovye Greeks’ personal names is traced.