On February 13, 2026, the Linguistics Graduate Course Union hosted the 2026 Graduate Workshop (formerly the Welcome Workshop). This event was a great opportunity to celebrate the great work happening in our community.
Some of our new graduate students presented and shared their past or on-going research projects:
June Puls (MA Student): On "interjective what" and giving a best guess.
Irene Zhuang (MA Student): Variation in syllable-final [-ŋ/-n] in Toronto Heritage Cantonese.
Jiayuan Daniel Yue (PhD Student): The argument-adjuct asymmetry revisited: The role of focus alternatives.
Jules Torgue (PhD Student): The narrative niche: Communicative need in narrative drives lexical richness.
David Ramsay (MA Student): Nominalization of embedded questions in Japanese.
Liam McFadden (MA Student): Probabilistic modeling of language contact with historical borders.
Thank you very much to our presenters, and to LGCU Social Committee for organizing this amazing event!