David Sankoff

List of John Benjamins publications in which David Sankoff is involved.

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Diversity and Diachrony

David Sankoff

This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montréal in 1983. It is divided into three sections: 1. Varieties of English and their history; 2. Change and variation in Romance; 3. Functions and discourse. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 53] 1986. xii, 430 pp.

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Sankoff, David 2008 How to predict the evolution of a bilingual community Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 179–194 | Article

Working for the Bureau of Statistics of Papua and New Guinea in 1967, I carried out a territory-wide population projection, based on a complete collection of village patrol reports and some birth records from a small sample of hospitals. Many years later, I drew on this experience to develop a… read more

Dubois, Sylvie and David Sankoff 1997 Discourse enumerators and Schegloff’s denominator Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. 153–182 | Article

Dubuisson, L., Louisette Emirkanian and David Sankoff 1989 The development of syntactic complexity in narrative, informative and argumentative discourse Language Change and Variation, Fasold, Ralph W. and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), pp. 333–350 | Article

Sankoff, David, Henrietta J. Cedergren, W. Kemp, Paul J. Thibault and Diane Vincent 1989 Montreal French: Language, class and ideology Language Change and Variation, Fasold, Ralph W. and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), pp. 107–118 | Article

Tousignant, Cl. and David Sankoff 1989 New results on Montreal French /r/ Language Change and Variation, Fasold, Ralph W. and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), pp. 85–94 | Article

Lemieux, Monique, Carmen Fontaine and David Sankoff 1986 Quantificateur et marqueur de discours Diversity and Diachrony, Sankoff, David, pp. 381–390 | Article