Prof. Victor Junnan Pan received his Maîtrise, Research Master and PhD from University of Nantes and Habilitation from University Paris Diderot – Paris 7 in France. Prior to joining CUHK, he was an Associate Professor with tenure in theoretical linguistics at the University Paris 7, habilitated for PhD students supervision, and a research staff member affiliated in Laboratoire de Linguisitique Formelle. In 2017, Prof. Pan was elected as a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (法蘭西大學學院青年院士) and was elected as a full-time scientific researcher among university teachers to work in CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) from 2017 to 2018 and he received Doctoral Supervision and Research Award from the French government. Prof. Pan was appointed by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research as scientific committee member of CNU (National Council for Universities) mainly in charge of qualification of new faculty members at the state level for the period 2011–2018. He also served as an executive committee member of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) and of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL). Prof. Pan has published journal articles, book chapters and five research monographs both in French and in English including Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese: A Minimalist Account (Mouton De Gruyter, 2016) and Architecture of The Periphery in Chinese: Cartography and Minimalism (Routledge, 2019). Prof. Pan also serves as anonymous reviewer for numerous prestigious international journals including Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, The Linguistic Review, Linguistics and Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

• Theoretical linguistics

  • Formal linguistics; generative syntax;
  • A’-dependency: interrogative constructions, wh-in-situ, wh-ex-situ, topicalization, cleft-sentences, relativization, resumption, non-standard interrogatives, locality, islands;
  • Quantification: scope-taking, bound variable, gap, resumptive pronoun;
  • Cartography: left periphery, sentence-final particles, functional projections under the Split-CP hypothesis;
  • The Minimalist Program: (long-distance) Agree, Move, Phase, Labeling;
  • Interface: syntax-semantics, syntax-information structure, syntax-prosody;
  • Comparative syntax: Chinese, Chinese dialects, French, English;

• LING3104 Syntax II
• LING3107 Comparative Grammar
• LING5102A Foundations II: Syntax and Semantics
• LING6903 Syntactic Theory