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Gillian Sankoff
Born (1943-03-06) March 6, 1943 (age 81)
OccupationLinguist
Spouses
  • David Sankoff
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    (m. 1981; died 1982)​
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    (m. 1993)​
ChildrenAlice Goffman

Gillian Elizabeth Sankoff (born March 6, 1943) is a Canadian-American sociolinguist, and professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Sankoff's notable former students include Miriam Meyerhoff.

She is known for her work on Montréal French, on pidgin and creole languages (in particular, Tok Pisin), and on how speakers' use of language changes over the course of their lifespans.[2][3] Her contributions to the development of the variationist approach to sociolinguistics are documented in interviews featured in Tagliamonte's[4] (2015) history of the field.

In 1986 she received a Guggenheim fellowship.[5] She was named a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 2018.[6][7]

She was married to mathematician David Sankoff, then to Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman from 1981 to his death in 1982, and subsequently married sociolinguist William Labov in 1993. She is the mother of sociologist Alice Goffman.[8]

References

  1. ^ ling.upenn.edu
  2. ^ "william-labov-and-gillian-sankoff-come-to-ohio-state/", underlingsosu.wordpress.com, 2013/02/25.
  3. ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  4. ^ Sali,, Tagliamonte,. Making waves : the story of variationist sociolinguistics. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom. ISBN 9781118455166. OCLC 921307274.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Gillian Sankoff Guggenheim Fellow". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  6. ^ "Gillian Sankoff named as an LSA Fellow, Class of 2018 | Department of Linguistics". www.ling.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  7. ^ "Introducing the LSA Fellows, Class of 2018 | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  8. ^ ssc.wisc.edu

Selected publications

Gillian Sankoff. 2001. Linguistic outcomes of language contact. In J.K. Chambers, P. Trudgill & Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds.), Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 638-668.

Gillian Sankoff. 2004. Adolescents, young adults and the critical period: two case studies from "Seven Up". In C. Fought (ed.), Sociolinguistic Variation: Critical Reflections. Oxford University Press, 121-139.

Gillian Sankoff and Suzanne Laberge. 1973. On the acquisition of native speakers by a language. Kivung 6, 32-47.

Gillian Sankoff and Penelope Brown. 1976. The origins of syntax in discourse: a case study of Tok Pisin relatives. Language 52, 631-666.

Gillian Sankoff et al. 1997. Variation in the use of discourse markers in a language contact situation. Language Variation and Change 9, 191-217.

Gillian Sankoff and Hélène Blondeau. 2007. Language change across the lifespan: /r/ in Montreal French. Language 83, 560-588.

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