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William Labov
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1927
- Died
- 2024
- Works
- 46
Top works
- Language in the Inner City. St. Ed
- Social Stratification England New York City 66 Bb 40
- Le Parler ordinaire
- What Is Linguistic Fact?
- What Is a Linguistic Fact?
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1958-02-01
- Active to
- 2020-03-24
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 99
- Total plays
- 116
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,673x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,968x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,036x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,753x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,541x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1927-12-04 ) December 4, 1927, Passaic, New Jersey , U.S.
- Died
- December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17) (aged 97), Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Occupations
- Industrial chemist (1949–60) Professor of linguistics (1964 – 2014)
- Known for
- Variationist sociolinguistics
- Spouses
- Teresa Gnasso Gillian Sankoff ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1993 )
- Children
- 7, including Alice Goffman
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA ), Columbia University ( MA , PhD )
- Doctoral advisor
- Uriel Weinreich
- Discipline
- Linguist
- Institutions
- Columbia University , University of Pennsylvania
- Notable ideas
- Covert prestige
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Number of children
- 2
Show 3 more facts
- date of birth
- 1927-12-04
- date of death
- 2024-12-17
- name in native language
- William Labov
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~14 min read
Article
William David Labov (/ləˈboʊv/ lə-BOHV; December 4, 1927 – December 17, 2024) was an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics, and "one of the most influential linguists of the 20th and 21st centuries".
Labov was a professor in the linguistics department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and pursued research in sociolinguistics, language change, and dialectology. He retired in 2015 but continued to publish research until his death in 2024.