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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: William Labov passes away (2024-12-17)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 14:22:54 -0000 (UTC)
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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".

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de