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Gillian Sankoff
American sociolinguist
Gillian Elizabeth Sankoff (born March 6, 1943) (pronounced ) is a Canadian-American sociolinguist, and professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Sankoff's notable former students include Miriam Meyerhoff.
Biography
She earned her PhD in 1968 from McGill University, with a dissertation entitled, "Social aspects of multilingualism in New Guinea."[2]
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.[3][4] Her contributions to the development of the variationist approach to sociolinguistics are documented in interviews featured in Tagliamonte's[5] (2015) history of the field.
She was married to Canadian mathematician David Sankoff, then to Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman from 1981 to his death in 1982, and subs