Ontology, semantics, logic or epistemology of substance?

In the long history of the substanceproblem - from Aristotle to e. g. David Wiggins - very different analytical approaches have fostered its deepening and its clearing step by step. Not only titular Analytical Philosophers, also Analytical Philosophers avant la lettre, e. g. Kant, have contributed to this kind of approach. In the following text it is to be shown how these contributions switch fruitfully between ontological, semantical (res. grammatical), epistemological and logical aspects.