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

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.