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 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.

On January 7, 2026, Professo Duk-Ho An (Konkuk University) gave a talk titled “Tenseless Clausal Coordination and the System of Tense Marking in Korean” for the research seminar at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Xiangyu presented the paper “Phi-Agree licensing movement and N-ellipsis: Agreeing modifiers and nominalizers’”, collaborated with Prof Victor Pan, at The annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2025 (ALS 2025), Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia, December 2-5.

Xiangyu presented the paper “Distribution of nominal modifiers in classifier languages: a labeling approach”, collaborated with Prof Victor Pan, at International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-2025), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, November 8-9.