The interpretation of adverbial constructions with the suffix -wise. An empirical study

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: 23 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Fachbereich 05 Department of English and Linguistics) course: English Linguistics (Master): Adjectives and Adverbs language: English abstract: The usage of -wise as a suffix within adverbial constructions such as in crabwise or weatherwise has clearly increased over the last decades and became progressively more popular in the mid-twentieth century. Although it is mostly used in spoken discourse its usage is not restricted to speech but expands to thewritten word as for example in newspapers or scholarly journals. This stems from the fact that this kind of genre quickly picks up new trends. However while -wise has been accepted in the adverbial sense -wise as a suffix for new words with the meaning 'with regard to' is criticized.