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.


Prof Victor Pan was chairing the closing ceremony at the 15th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-15), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 5-6.

Dr Zhuo Chen presented the paper “Sentence-final negation questions from a comparative perspective”, collaborated with Jiahui Huang† and Ka-Fai Yip, at the 15th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-15), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 5-6.

Jin Yan presented the poster ‘Revisit Mandarin A-not-A questions: adverbials and cartography’, at the 15th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-15), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 5-6.

Xiangyu presented the poster ‘V-qǐlái in Chinese: directional verb, aspect marker or bǔyǔ biāojì ‘complementizer’ ’, at the 15th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-15), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 5-6.

Prof Victor Pan gives four lectures at the linguistics faculty of Université Paris Cité as invited scholar. • Lecture 1 : Free MERGE under SMT: Part One – Derivation with Multiple Dimensions (Monday 11 May, 10h00–12h00) • Lecture 2 : Free MERGE under SMT: Part Two – Derivation with Parallel Workspaces (Tuesday 12 May, 10h00–12h00) • Lecture 3 : Minimalist Derivation of the Final Order of Discourse Particles: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Korean (Monday 18 May, 10h00–12h00) • Lecture 4 : The DP System in nDrapa (Tuesday 19 May, 10h00–12h00)