 A crucial distinction in Marty’s descriptive semasiology is that between those expressions which have meaning independently and those which do not (Marty 1908a, 205 ff.). He calls the former “autosemantic expressions” (autosemantische Ausdrücke) or simply “autosemantica” (Autosemantika), as exemplified by names and sentences of various kinds, whereas he calls the latter “synsemantic expressions” (synsemantische Ausdrücke) or simply “synsemantica” (Synsemantika), as exemplified by particles (“and”, “if”, etc.) as well as inflected nouns and verbs.