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

The correct answer is letter "C": Syntactic.

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; decentralized;