La Toponimia, una rama de la Onomástica con entidad propia

Abstract

Not everyone who approaches Toponymy is sure about what it is understood to be, what its scientific aims are, what it studies or analyzes, or even if it has enough weight to be considered an autonomous scientific discipline. Its condition as a field of Onomastics, where Anthroponymy is also situated, and as a place of encounter of the many disciplines that collaborate in this field might lead one to believe that Toponymy does not have its own identity. In the study at hand, however, we will see how this discipline has not always been well defined, but that it has a true identity and scientific nature where the interdisciplinary nature that characterizes it is the hallmark of this identity, not a defect, and that there exist various points in common, but also ones that differentiate it with respect to Anthroponymy (multivocity, motivation and exonymy). All of which will allow us to better understand Toponymy as a humanistic science.