Question

The fact that the words "whiskey makes you sick when you're well," when arranged differently, "Whiskey, when you're sick, makes you well," create a totally different meaning is related to which rule of language?

Answer 1

Answer: syntactic

Explanation:

The rule gives description of how to order words which help the language parts of it to make sense.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is letter "C": Syntactic.

Explanation:

Language syntax explains how words and punctuations are structured in such a way that using the same words in different structures means that the context of the message is modified. Other language rules imply phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics.  

Thus:

"whiskey makes you sick when you're well";

and,

"whiskey, when you're sick, makes you well";

show how the meaning varies by changing the order of the words and the punctuation of the sentence.