Publication details
| Authors/Editors: | Labov, William |
| Title: | Principles of linguistic change. Volume 1: Internal factors. |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Publisher: | Oxford: Blackwell |
| Series: | Language in Society 20 |
| Pages: | xix + 641 |
| ISBN: | 0-631-17914-3 |
| Publication type: | Book — monograph |
| Language: | English |
| Keyword(s): | language change  |
| Subject — language(s): | English, American |
| Subject — person(s): | Labov, W. |
| Annotation: | This first volume of a major investigation into the principles of language change, covers the following areas of inquiry: the study of apparent and real time; principles governing chain shifts; mergers, splits and near-mergers; the regularity of sound changes; functional effects on linguistic change. |