William Labov
| William Labov | |
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| Born |
December 4, 1927 Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Residence | Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education |
Harvard College, B.A. (1948) Columbia University, M.A. (1963), Ph.D. (1964) |
| Occupation | Industrial chemist (1949–60), Associate professor (1971–present) |
| Employer | University of Pennsylvania |
| Known for | Variationist sociolinguistics |
| Spouse(s) | Gillian Sankoff (m. 1993) |
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William "Bill" Labov (/ləˈboʊv/ lə-BOHV; born December 4, 1927) is 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. He is employed as a professor in the linguistics department of the University of Pennsylvania, and pursues research in sociolinguistics, language change, and dialectology. He semi-retired at the end of spring 2014.
Born in Rutherford, New Jersey, he studied at Harvard (1948) and worked as an industrial chemist (1949–61) before turning to linguistics. For his MA thesis (1963) he completed a study of change in the dialect of Martha's Vineyard, which was presented before the Linguistic Society of America. Labov took his PhD (1964) at Columbia University studying under Uriel Weinreich. He taught at Columbia (1964–70) before becoming a professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania (1971), and then became director of the university's Linguistics Laboratory (1977). In 1985 Labov received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden.
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