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.


Yunhao Zang presented his paper ‘Omission of Numeral and Classifier in Mandarin’ at the 2nd Interdisciplinary Taught Postgraduate Student Conference on Arts and Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 30.

The article Ph.D candidate Steven Zetao Xu (First author) and Prof Victor Pan, 徐澤韜 潘俊楠 (2026) ‘漢語複數標記在不同接觸模式下的不同演變特徵’ (Different Behaviours of The Chinese Plural Marker under Different Contact Scenarios), has been published in 中國語文通訊 (Current Research in Chinese Linguistics), Volume 105, Issue 2: 463-487 (CSSCI) (Open Access)

Dr Zhuo Chen presented the paper ‘江淮官话芜湖方言中的句末“在”:言语行为与左缘结构’, at the 12th Inter-regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar (第十二届方言语法博学论坛), Fudan University, Shanghai, April 18-19.

Zetao Xu, Xiangyu Li and Prof Victor Pan are doing data collection of nDrapa language in the West of Sichuan. They work closely with native speakers of this endangered language.