Prof. Haihua PAN received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, USA and MA from Wuhan University, China. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in December, 2015. Previously he taught at City University of Hong Kong (7/1995 – 12/2015), Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China (7/1986 – 7/1988), and was a Research Associate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for six months in 1995. He was awarded the Changjiang Scholar-Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education, China in September 2012 and the KC Wong Foundation (王寬誠基金會) Scholar in 2010. He was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Linguistics at University of Paris 7 in June 2014. He has published two research books on Chinese reflexives and formal semantics and edited two on Chinese linguistics and focus. He is a reviewer of prestigious international journals such as Language, Linguistic Inquiry, 《中國語文》, 《當代語言學》, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, Language Sciences, Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Natural Language Semantics, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, etc. He was Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, responsible for Postgraduate Education and Research during 8/2005 – 9/2010. He served on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (2004-2006), and was the President of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong during 2010 – 2011.

Total GRF/CERG funding as PI: more than $6M
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• Cross-linguistic investigation into universal quantification and other related notions and their semantic map, RGC General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong Government, $.6M, 1/1/2016 – 31/12/2018, Principle Investigator, completed.
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• Long Distance Reflexives – An Asian Perspective, RGC General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong Government, $.76M plus CityU top-up of $38K, 9/2014 – 8/2016,with an excellent rating in publication,  Principle Investigator, completed. 
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• A Semantic Investigation into Indexicals — with a special reference to Chinese (CityU 148610),  RGC General Research Fund (GRF) #9041610, Hong Kong Government, 01/2011-12/2012, HK$524,336 plus CityU top-up HK$20,000, Principle Investigator, completed, with an excellent rating in publication and publicity values.
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• Prominence and Differential Grammatical Marking in the Encoding of Syntactic Categories — A Study with Special Reference to Chinese (CityU 146509),  RGC General Research Fund (GRF) #9041462, Hong Kong Government, 01/2010-12/2011, HK$517,360 plus CityU & CTL top-up HK$111,736, Principle Investigator, completed.
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• An Argument-Structure Based Approach to Transitivity Alternations: With Special Reference to Chinese and English) (CityU 148607),  RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) #9041288, Hong Kong Government, 01/2008-12/2010;  HK$717,800 plus CityU & CTL top-up HK$91,780, Principle Investigator, completed, with an excellent rating in publication and publicity values.
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• A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation into Topic and Focus Articulations in Chinese (Mandarin and Wu Dialects) (CityU 1514/06H),  RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) #9041187, Hong Kong Government, 01/2007-12/2009;  HK$984,000 plus CityU top-up HK$98,450, completed, Principle Investigator.
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• Prominence and Locality in Grammar: An Experimental Study of the Conceptualization of Quantification Scope in Chinese, RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) #9041067, Hong Kong Government, 11/2005-10/2008; HK$731,000 plus CityU top-up HK$70,000, completed, Principle Investigator.
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• A Semantic and Syntactic Investigation into Quantification, Eventuality, Focus and Modality – With a Special Reference to Cantonese Post-Verbal Particles, RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) #9040855, Hong Kong Government, 11/2003-10/2006, HK$1,056,000 plus CityU top-up HK$52,179, completed, Principle Investigator.
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• Automatic Word Error Detection and Correction for Chinese Electronic Texts, Hong Kong government CERG grant, Principal Investigator, 1997-99, completed, HK$200,000, with an excellent rating in publication, Principle Investigator.

• Syntax
• Semantics
• Formal Semantics
• Natural Language Processing

• LING5502 Topics in Chinese Syntax and Semantics
• LING6903 Syntactic Theory