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? A) SemanticB) PragmaticC) Syntactic D) None of the above

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter "C": Syntactic.

Step-by-step explanation:

The rules of languages define their properties and features. Those rules involve talking about phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The syntax of a language describes how words and punctuations are arranged in a way that by using the same words with different arrangements imply changing the meaning of the message.

Thus:

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

and,

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

show how meaning varies by varying the order of the words and punctuation in a sentence.

Answer 2

The correct answer is C) Syntactic.

Step-by-step explanation:

The role that plays a word, morpheme or syntactic constituent within a syntactic construction that includes it is called a syntactic function. All combination relationships or syntagmatic relationships that a word maintains with the other words in a context.

The simplest syntactic functions are those of subject and predicate. The subject is the topic, issue or support that is being discussed. The predicate is what is said or preached or commented or contributed about that subject. Example: Peter (subject syntactic function) eats fruits and vegetables (predicate syntactic function). The syntactic functions - in language - are performed by different kinds of words: the noun Pedro in the case of the previous subject; the verb eat in the case of the previous predicate.