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.
On May 23, 2025, Prof Victor Pan delivered an invited talk entitled ‘最簡方案下的多維合併機制及標籤算法 (Multi-dimensional MERGE in the Minimalist Program and the Labelling Algorithm)’ at the department of foreign languages and literatures of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (陽明交通大學外國語文學系).
Professor Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT) gives three lectures at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the Wilson T. S. Wang-New Method College Visiting Professorship in Language Education. 1. May 20: What is Human Language Designed for? 2. May 21: Baby Sounds, Boléro, and Other Gifts of Evolution. 3. May 26: Pro-drop, E-type Pronouns, and Agreement With Reference to the Null Subject in Chinese and Japanese
Chenghao Hu presented the paper “Chinese Nominal Structure: on Plural Marker and Pronouns” at The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG34) held at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Madrid, Spain, from May 7 to 9, 2025.