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Although the interview suffers from a number of faults—for instance, it is not penetrating or thorough enough, probably because Aman is a better scholar, writer, and editor than interviewer, and it contains gratuitous information about the interviewer who cannot resist blowing his own horn—it is at least an attempt at documenting that has not, to my knowledge, been done before in the field of linguistics.
The author, Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Nevada (Las Vegas--where else?)
William Labov, a professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of an early study, The Social Stratification of English in New York (1966), has been arguing for years that, whatever its original sources, the language of poor, urban blacks is becoming ever more divergent from that of other Americans, as de facto racial segregation and social isolation become the permanent lot of a vast subgroup of African Americans.
It is only through their written forms that we know anything at all about certain languages, and the written forms of others serve to confirm the findings of diachronic linguistics in positing the pronunciation and sources of long-dead tongues.
Spirit Pond Runestones, A Study in Linguistics