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 and Dahoon Kim (김다훈/金多勳) (former RA in our team, now PhD student at UCSC) published Discourse particles in Korean: phasehood and derivation in Journal of Linguistics (SSCI, AHCI) (open access)!

The article, co-authored by Ph.D candidate Chenghao Hu (First author) and Prof Victor Pan, “On the plural marker ‘men’ in Chinese”, has been published in Catalan Journal of Linguistics (ESCI) (Open Access)

Team members, Zetao Xu, Tingting Weng, Wanxin Li and Zhongyang Yu, are doing fieldwork for Qiangic languages in the West of Sichuan. The documentation and preservation of endangered languages are urgent! Our team works closely with Prof Yang Huang from Southwest Jiaotong University, who is an expert of Qiangic langauges.

Xiangyu presented his paper “基于控制结构的新分析:“他革他的命,你复你的古" at the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-32), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, June 12–14.