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Publication details [#5862]

Labov, William. 1982. Building on empirical foundations. In Lehmann, Winfred P. and Yakov Malkiel, eds. Perspectives on historical linguistics. John Benjamins. pp. 17–92.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change

Annotation

A review of research consistent with the principles for the empirical foundations of a theory of language change developed by U.Weinreich, W. Labov, and M.Herzog (1968: 'Empirical foundations for a theory of language change').