Dayeon Chu

Dayeon Chu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto Mississauga under the supervision of Professor Arsalan Kahnemuyipour. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in 2026; her dissertation, titled “Persian as a Pluricentric Language,” examined linguistic variation across major varieties of Persian, with particular attention to Iranian Persian and Tajik Persian. Her research broadly centers on Persian linguistics, with interests in cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics, morphosyntax, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and language education. She is particularly interested in corpus-based approaches to the study of linguistic structure, variation, and usage in Persian. One of her current projects examines the progressive aspect in Persian from a corpus-based morphosyntactic perspective, with particular attention to its structural variation and distribution.