Gillian Sankoff
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Gillian Sankoff is a sociolinguist renowned for her pioneering work on language variation and change, particularly in French and in multilingual communities such as Papua New Guinea.
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| Gillian Sankoff canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
person
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sociolinguist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in linguistics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Killam Research Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
McGill University
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University of Pennsylvania ⓘ Université de Montréal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Pennsylvania
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Université de Montréal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
French sociolinguistics
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creole studies ⓘ language variation and change ⓘ multilingualism ⓘ sociolinguistics ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasPublication |
studies of Montreal French in real time
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“Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact in a Multilingual Society” NERFINISHED ⓘ “On the Acquisition of Native Speakers by a Language” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Social Life of Language” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | variationist sociolinguistics ⓘ |
| influencedBy | William Labov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
longitudinal studies of language change in real time
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pioneering work on language variation and change ⓘ research on French in Montreal ⓘ research on multilingual communities in Papua New Guinea ⓘ work on discourse markers ⓘ work on grammatical variation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association internationale de linguistique du français
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Linguistic Society of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStudent | William Labov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on Montreal French across three decades
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research on Tok Pisin and language contact in Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| occupation | sociolinguist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania
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Researcher at Université de Montréal ⓘ |
| spouse | David Sankoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studied |
French spoken in Montreal
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Papua New Guinea multilingual communities ⓘ Tok Pisin NERFINISHED ⓘ apparent-time and real-time change ⓘ bilingual discourse ⓘ code-switching ⓘ |
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