The Pan’s Syntax Lab is a research team led by Prof Victor Junnan Pan based at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Our team mainly focuses on generative syntax, especially, the Minimalist Program. We also work on heritage language, language contact, minority and endangered languages (Sino-Tibetan), and, psycho and neurolinguistics under the formal syntactic theoretical framework. / 香港中文大學語言學及現代語言系潘俊楠教授帶領的句法團隊致力於生成句法學,尤其是最簡方案, 繼承語和語言接觸、少數民族語言和瀕危語言以及理論語言學框架下的心理和神經語言學等領域的研究。 / L’équipe de recherche dirigée par le professeur Victor Junnan Pan au sein du Département de Linguistique et de Langues Modernes à l’Université Chinoise de Hong Kong travaille sur la syntaxe générative, notamment, le Programme Minimaliste, les langues d’héritage, le contact linguistique, les langues minoritaires et en danger (sino-tibétaines), et, la psycho et la neurolinguistique dans le cadre théorique de la syntaxe formelle.
Tingting Weng and Jiaying Huang co-presented their paper ‘Number mismatch in the Universal Quantification? On the “One-Cl-N dou V- saːi" in the Guangzhou Yue dialect’ at the 31st Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-31) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, July 2-4.
Team members, Zetao Xu (group leader), Chenghao Hu, Xiangyu Li and Zhongyang Yu, are doing data collection of nDrapa language in the West of Sichuan. The documentation and projection of this endangered language is very urgent! Our team works closely with native speakers of nDrapa and Prof Yang Huang from Southwest Jiaotong University, who is an expert of this langauge.
Chenghao and Prof Victor Pan co-presented their paper “A base-generation approach to sentence-initial root modal auxiliaries in Chinese” at Workshop on The Syntax and Semantics of Auxiliaries, Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage (UMR 7023), CNRS & Université Paris 8, Paris, France, June 23-24.
Jin Yan presented the paper “閩語閩東方言左緣結構中的句末助詞層級劃分” at 第十一屆方言語法博學論壇 (The 11th Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar) at Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou from June 21 to 22.