Mai has done some very nice work on "like" with her undergraduate grammar classes.
Herb
Some bibliography on 'like':
http://www.bsu.edu/classes/kuha/ENG321/like.html
ux6.cso.uiuc.edu/~k-lee7/discmarkers.pdf
http://home.hia.no/~kristinh/phd/index.html
These should be fun, for a start.
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