Like It or Not
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1992
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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In this paper, I study several uses of the word like,
and their distributions in American English. In particular, I focus first on its use as a comparison operator, and then
on its use as a speech/state introducer. I argue that the latter is related to (and was able to come into existence as such by) the former, and, through a semantic analysis following that of Johnson-Laird's Mental Models interpretation, that it is a particularized instance of comparison.