In this article, William Labov offers a personal take on the scholarly accomplishments and advising style of Uriel Weinreich, his mentor and later his colleague as well. He also draws on letters he and Weinreich exchanged in the mid-1960s, and he documents aspects of the collaboration that resulted in Weinreich’s most lasting contribution to the study of language change, the 1968 Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog paper (U. Weinreich, W. Labov, and M.I. Herzog. “Empirical Foundations for a Theory of Language Change,” in Directions for Historical Linguistics, eds. W.P. Lehmann and Y. Malkiel. Austin: University of Texas Press, 95–195).

在本文中，威廉·拉博夫（William Labov）对他的导师以及后来的同事Uriel Weinreich的学术成就和咨询风格进行了个人介绍。他还借鉴了他和Weinreich在1960年代中期交换的来信，并记录了合作的各个方面，这些合作导致Weinreich对语言变化的研究做出了最持久的贡献，例如1968年Weinreich，Labov和Herzog的论文（U. Weinreich， W. Labov和MI Herzog，“语言变化理论的经验基础”，《历史语言学指导》，WP Lehmann和Y. Malkiel编辑，奥斯丁：德克萨斯大学出版社，95-195）。