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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
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Subject: Re: William Labov passes away (2024-12-17)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:44:19 +0000
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 Ar an t-ochtú lá déag de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Christian Weisgerber: 

 > Wikipedia:
 > 
 >   William 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".

Some universally positive comments on Language Log:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399

Odd surname to me. Wikipedia lists him as Jewish; is it something that makes
sense from the Pale of Settlement?

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