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Gillian Elizabeth Sankoff (born March 6, 1943) (pronounced ) is a Canadian-American sociolinguistics, and professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. ling.upenn.edu Sankoff's notable former students include Miriam Meyerhoff.
She is known for her work on Montréal French, on pidgin and (in particular, Tok Pisin), and on how speakers' use of language changes over the course of their lifespans. "william-labov-and-gillian-sankoff-come-to-ohio-state/", underlingsosu.wordpress.com, 2013/02/25. Her contributions to the development of the variationist approach to sociolinguistics are documented in interviews featured in Sali Tagliamonte's (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 subsequently married American sociolinguist William Labov in 1993. She is the mother of sociologist Alice Goffman. ssc.wisc.edu
A Festschrift in her honor, Social Lives in Language, (2025). 9789027218636, John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027218636 appeared in 2008. A special panel in her honor was organized as part of the NWAV 41 (2012) conference held at Indiana University.
She was named a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 2018.
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