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Mondatszemantika refers to the study of meaning in sentences. It is a branch of semantics, which itself is the linguistic study of meaning. Mondatszemantika focuses on how individual words contribute to the meaning of a sentence, as well as how the arrangement of those words and their grammatical relationships create the overall sense of the utterance.

This field explores various aspects of sentence meaning, including truth conditions, propositional content, and the inferential relationships between sentences. Truth conditions, for instance, examine the circumstances under which a sentence can be considered true. Propositional content refers to the core idea or proposition that a sentence conveys, independent of its specific wording. Inferential relationships, such as entailment and contradiction, are also central to understanding how meanings of sentences relate to one another.

Mondatszemantika often employs formal methods, drawing on logic and philosophy of language. It seeks to develop systematic ways to represent and analyze sentence meaning. Concepts like logical form, scope of quantifiers, and the interpretation of logical connectives are frequently discussed within this area of linguistics. The goal is to provide a rigorous account of how humans understand and interpret the vast array of sentences they encounter.