I'm like, "Hey, it works!": Using GlossaNet to find attestations of the quotative (be) like in English-language newspapers

Fairon, Cédrick;Singler, John
(2006) Language and Computers : studies in practical linguistics —

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We present a study of a particular type of a quotative that occurs frequently in American Vernacular English and might be becoming part of Standard English: (be) like. To evaluate how this quotative is spreading in written English, we have used GlossaNet, an automatic system that monitors newspapers analyzing these texts using the programs and linguistic resources of a corpus parser.
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Fairon, C., & Singler, J. (2006). I’m like, “Hey, it works!”: Using GlossaNet to find attestations of the quotative (be) like in English-language newspapers. Language and Computers : studies in practical linguistics. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/160366