 In the nineteenth century the term “semasiology” (Semasiologie) was often used in reference to linguistic investigations concerning meaning. Marty often uses this term in order to designate his philosophical investigations concerning language which are indeed by and large concerned with meaning. Other terms which are used by him more or less synonymously are “semantics” (Semantik) and “universal grammar” (allgemeine Grammatik), especially in reference to his synchronic undertaking. Among Marty’s contemporaries Husserl spoke of “pure grammar” (reine Grammatik), which was, however, conceived of as part of formal logic (Husserl 1901, 286–321). Insofar as Marty’s universal grammar is a semasiology developed in the framework of Brentanian descriptive psychology and with a look to universal forms underlying communicative intention, Marty thinks that his endeavor is quite distinct from – and of greater philosophical significance than – Husserl’s foray into the grammatical domain which attempts to single out and describe pure logical grammar a priori and in abstraction from the communicative function of language (Husserl 1901, Marty 1908a, 56–63, Seron 2017, 309–324, Leblanc 2017, 325–344).