Editing William Labov (section)

==Personal life and death==
Labov had five children from his first marriage to Teresa Gnasso Labov: Susannah Page, Sarah Labov, Simon Labov, Joanna Labov, and Jessie Labov. In 1993, he married fellow sociolinguist [[Gillian Sankoff]], and they had two children: Rebecca Labov and sociologist [[Alice Goffman]],<ref>{{cite book| editor1-last=Meyerhoff |editor1-first=Miriam |editor2-last=Nagy |editor2-first=Naomi |title=Social Lives in Language |publisher=John Benjamins |isbn=978-90-272-1863-6 |year=2008 |page=21}}</ref> the latter of whom Labov adopted after the death of Sankoff's previous husband, [[Erving Goffman]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Trials of Alice Goffman|last=Lewis-Kraus|first=Gideon|date=January 12, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times Magazine}}</ref> 

William Labov died at his home in Philadelphia on December 17, 2024, at the age of 97<ref name="ll" /><ref> {{Cite web |title=William "Bill" Labov Obituary 2024 |url=https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/william-labov |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=Goldsteins' Rosenberg's Funeral Directors |language=en}}</ref> from complications due to [[Parkinson's]].<ref>{{cite news | last=Conde | first=Ximena | title=William Labov, 'father of sociolinguistics' who studied the Philadelphia accent, dies at 97 | magazine=[[Philadelphia Inquirer]] | date=2024-12-24 | url=https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/william-labov-father-sociolinguistics-dead-20241223.html | access-date=2024-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/us/william-labov-dead.html|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=December 24, 2024|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 24, 2024}}</ref>