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 delivered his invited talk collaborated with Zetao Xu ‘現代漢語疑問詞的句法層級再探’ at International Roundtable on Comparative Syntax 比較句法國際圓桌論壇, NTHU, October 18-19, 2025.

Prof Victor Pan delivered his Keynote speech ‘以極簡的自由合併框架觀語言之複雜表象’(Deriving “complicated” language phenomena under the “simplest” free MERGE framework), at 第七屆“走向新描寫主義”國際研討會, Macau University of Science and Technology, September 20-21.

Zetao presented the paper ‘漢語繼承語的數量一致性’ at 第三屆京滬港澳高校中文學科研究生論壇, Fudan University, Shanghai, September 20-21.

Zetao presented the paper “Grammaticalization of demonstratives and the nominal structure in nDrapa”, collaborated with Prof Victor Pan, at The 58th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL-58), University of Bern, Switzerland, September 3-5.