 Statements (Aussagen) make up the autosemantica which express judgments. This class of expressions received considerable attention from Marty in his early work (Marty 1884), especially with regard to the problem of statements which apparently have no subject, so-called “impersonals” (Impersonalien). While statements of this kind were a grave embarrassment to the traditional conception of judgment as predication, Marty argued at length, in opposition to the views of many philosophers, psychologists, and linguists, that the impersonals are best understood as expressing judgments in which something is accepted or rejected or, as one may alternatively formulate his view, regarded as existent or non-existent. If, for instance, the impersonal “It is raining” is under consideration, there is no need to theorize about a mysterious entity to which “it” refers, for this statement only expresses the judgment that there exists the event of raining within the speakers vicinity. Such an approach to impersonals had already been advanced by a specialist in the Slavic languages (Miklosich 1883; cf. Brentano 1889: 109–133). Marty cites this philological work with approval, but it is clear that the main inspiration behind his approach is Brentano.