Życie prywatne Od był 1993 żonaty z socjolingwistką Gillian Sankoff. Wcześniej jego żoną była socjolingwistka Teresa Gnasso Labov.
Publikacje Opracowano na podstawie źródła. The Social Stratification of English in New York City, Waszyngton, Center for Applied Linguistics, 1966 The Study of Nonstandard English, Waszyngton, National Council of Teachers of English, 1969 The Study of Non-Standard English, Champaign, National Council of Teachers of English, 1970 Sociolinguistic Patterns, Filadelfia, U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1972 Language in the Inner City, Filadelfia, U. of Pennsylvania Press,1972 What is a linguistic fact?, Peter de Ridder Press, Nowy Jork, 1975 Il Continuo e il Discreto nel Linguaggio, Bolonia, Il Mulino, 1977 razem z Dawidem Fanshelem, Therapeutic Discourse: Psychotherapy as Conversation, Nowy Jork, Academic Press, 1977 Locating Language in Time and Space, (ed.) Nowy Jork, Academic Press, 1980 Principles of Linguistic Change. Volume I: Internal Factors, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1994 Principles of Linguistic Change.