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 participated in the PhD defense of Dr Ruoxuan Li as External Examiner at Université Paris Cité. The other members include: Prof Claire Saillard, Prof Caterina Donati and Prof Carlo Cecchetto, Prof Francesca Foppolo, Prof Charlotte Hauser. Dr Ruoxuan Li is a former RA in our syntax team. Congratulations Dr Li!

Team members Zetao and Youngyoon, ranked the 2nd in the semifinal on Feb 10, 2026, got to the final of CUHK MSing singing competition! They performed together the song “Butterfly” by Jason Mraz. Bravo Zetao and Youngyoon! Our team is so proud of you! 2026年2月10日,句法组组员徐泽韬和曺永允和在香港中文大学以复赛第二名的成绩闯入CUHK“M唱”歌唱比赛决赛。复赛演唱的歌曲是Jason Mraz的《Butterfly》。太棒了!我们全体组员都为你们感到骄傲!决赛加油加油!

On Feburary 3, 2026, Professo Hedde Zeijlstra (Georg-August-University in Göttingen) gave a talk titled “Reinstalling verbal c-selection” for the research seminar at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Wency presented the poster ‘An ERP study of the distinction between pro and trace in Mandarin Chinese’ at the Neurolinguistics Workshop at the 34th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE34), IUSS, Pavia, Italy, January 28.

Prof Victor Pan delivered an invited talk co-authored with Zetao Xu entitled “The Nominal System in nDrapa” at 2026 Joint Seminar on Miracle Creed New Horizons of Linguistics – in the Humanities, hosted by GKNU Institute of Humanities and SMOG Syntax Circle, Gyeongkuk National University, Andong, South Korea, January 9.