Linkage vs Liaison - What's the difference?
linkage | liaison |
A mechanical device that connects things.
:A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear.
A connection or relation between things or ideas.
(genetics) The property of genes of being inherited together.
(linguistics) A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
Communication between two parties or groups.
Co-operation, working together.
A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
A tryst, romantic meeting.
(figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
(linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il ".