# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gillian-sankoff
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:55:03.529Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gillian-sankoff"
name: "Gillian Sankoff"
slug: "gillian-sankoff"
description: "Gillian Elizabeth Sankoff is a Canadian-American sociolinguist, and professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Sankoff's notable former students include Miriam Meyerhoff."
tagline: "American sociolinguist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-03-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.01926
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~gillian/home.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "جيليان سانكوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Sankoff"
    title: "Gillian Sankoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Sankoff"
    title: "Gillian Sankoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Sankoff"
    title: "Gillian Sankoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Sankoff"
    title: "Gillian Sankoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16964366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations