I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.
William LabovI have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.
William LabovIt appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
William Labov