PAN Victor Junnan 潘俊楠
Professor
Maîtrise, DEA, Doctorat (Université de Nantes, France), Habilitation (Université Paris 7, France)
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Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages,
Leung Kau Kui Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong - victorjunnanpan[at]cuhk.edu.hk
Recent and Upcoming
– Conferences:
The 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 6-8, 2024. (https://ling.cuhk.edu.hk/glowxiv/)
– Publication:
Pan, Victor Junnan and Yuqiao Du (2024). ‘A multi-dimensional derivation model under the free-MERGE system: labor division between syntax and the C-I interface’, The Linguistic Review, volume 41, issue 1, 85-117.
(open access https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/tlr-2024-2004/html)
Pan, Victor Junnan, Mamoru Saito and Yuqiao Du (2024). ‘Introduction: workspace, MERGE and labelling’, The Linguistic Review, volume 41, issue 1, 1-5. (open access https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/tlr-2024-2001/html)
Pan, Victor Junnan, Mamoru Saito and Yuqiao Du. (2024). Special Issue: Workspace, MERGE, and Labelling. Co-edited volume of special issue, The Linguistic Review, volume 41, issue 1, 1-223. (https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/tlir/41/1/html)
Li, Xiangyu, Zetao Xu, Yuqiao Du, Chenghao Hu, Zhongyang Yu, Zhuo Chen, Victor Junnan Pan (2024). Proceedings of the 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV), Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Open access: https://ling.cuhk.edu.hk/glowxiv/Proceedings_GLOWinAsia14th.pdf)
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘A case of pseudo-optionality as a consequence of language contact’, Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, volume LXVIII, issue 3, 285-299. (Open access https://lingv.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RRL-3-2023-7.-XuJunnan.pdf)
Pan, Victor Junnan. (to appear) ‘Copy and Move: Motivation and Derivation’, in The Cambridge Handbook of the Minimalist Program, Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Evelina Leivada (eds.). Cambridge University Press.
Pan, Victor Junnan and Yihe Jiao (2023) ‘Object-Fronting in Archaic Chinese’. in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Mark Aronoff et al. (eds.), Oxford University Press. (https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.1013) [Draft]
Li, Xiangyu and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘How to Label via Feature-Sharing: Case of Nominal Structures in Chinese’, in 2022 Linearization – Proceedings of the 24th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Tae Sik Kim & Jungu Kang (eds.), The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Seoul: Hankook Munhwasa: 82-97. [draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan and Chang Liu (2023) ‘Focus constructions involving shì in Mandarin Chinese’, Languages, 8(2):103. (https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020103) (Open access)
Pan, Victor Junnan and Bin Zhu (2023) ‘On the Syntax of Causal Clauses in Mandarin Chinese’, in On the Variation of Causal Clauses, Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Constanze Fleczoreck (eds.), [Studies in Language Companion Series], John Benjamins, 221-249.
Du, Yuqiao, Zhuo Chen, Xiangyu Li, Zetao Xu and Victor Junnan Pan (2022). Proceedings of the 13th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIII) 2022 Online Special, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Open access) (https://ling.cuhk.edu.hk/glowxiii/Proceedings_of_GLOW-In_Asia_XIII.pdf)
Pan, Victor Junnan. (2022). ‘Deriving Head-Final Order in the Peripheral Domain of Chinese’, Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 53, Issue 1, 121-154. (https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00396) [Draft]
潘俊楠 徐澤韜 (2022). ‘現代漢語疑問詞的句法層級再探 (On the Syntactic Hierarchy of Wh-words in Mandarin Chinese)’, 語言學論叢, 1, 100-124. [Draft]
– Talks:
Pan, Victor Junnan (2024). ‘Free MERGE under SMT: derivation with Multiple Dimensions and Parallel Workspaces’ invited talk at The Syntax and Semantics Workshop (ICSS): “Advancing Beyond the Miracle Creed for K-Humanities”, annual conference of The Society of Modern Grammar (SMOG), Andong University, Andong city, South Korea, August 19-21. (video link: https://www.youtube.com/live/TIxMdKwQnRQ (starting from 2:13:45)
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘On poly-definiteness and the structure of DP in nDrapa’, paper presented at Workshop: Special definites, demonstratives, and pronouns – The 24th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest (CIDL24), Bucharest, Romania, 15-16 November.
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘Revisit the clausal approach to comparative deletion in Mandarin Chinese’, paper presented The 12th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL- 12), Roma Tre University, September 19-20.
Yu, Zhongyang and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘An Agree account for Sogdian second position clitics’, paper presented at the joint conference of The 26th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 26) and The 18th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 18), Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, August 22-24.
Hu, Chenghao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘Plural Markers and Classifiers as Anti-labelers in Japanese and Chinese’, paper presented at the joint conference of The 26th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 26) and The 18th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 18), Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, August 22-24.
Yu, Zhongyang and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘Split Ergativity in Sogdian Revised’, paper presented at International Symposium on Silk Road Linguistics (絲綢之路語言學國際研討會), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 30-31.
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘A case of pseudo-optionality as a consequence of language contact’, CUHK-EHESS Symposium on Language and Cultural Contact Along the Frontiers of China, Ancient and Modern, The ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong, March 28.
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘Labeling Reduced Structures in Chinese’, paper presented The 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 6-8.
Hu, Chenghao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘An Agreement Approach to the Peripheral Projection Encoded Finiteness in Mandarin’, poster presented The 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 6-8.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2024). A multi-dimensional derivation model under the free-MERGE system: labor division between syntax and the C-I interface. Invited lecture given at the English department of Dongguk University, February 1.
Li, Xiangyu and Victor Junnan Pan (2023). ‘Nominal phrase with relative clause in Mandarin Chinese: Labeling and Antilocality’, talk given at Workshop: Factors in Natural Language Design – the Nominal Domain and Beyond (FIND 2023), Gottingen, December 11-12.
Hu, Chenghao and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘A Workspace-Based Approach to Tag Questions in Mandarin Chinese’, paper presented at Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2023), École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, December 7-9.
Du, Yuqiao and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘A Dual-Thread Model for Relative Clauses: From Acquisition to Typology’, talk given at the International conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-4), Dongguk University, Seoul, August 17-19.
Li, Xiangyu and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘Form-Copy and Verbal Inscriptions: Evidence from Verb-Copying Construction in Chinese’, poster presented at The 25th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 25), Dongguk University, Seoul, August 14-16.
Du, Yuqiao, Victor Junnan Pan et al. (2023) ‘Ergative-Absolutive vs. Nominative-Accusative: Cycles of Feature Permeation’, Colloquium on Cyclicity and the theory of language change, The University of Manchester, July 17-18.
Li, Wenqi and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘The Hierarchical Order of Sentence-Final Aspect Particles in Chinese Jin Dialects’, 36th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics (JLAO36), Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale (CRLAO), Paris, France, July 10-11.
Pan, Victor Junnan and Chenghao Hu (2023) ‘Peripheral Functional Projection encoded Finiteness in Mandarin Chinese’, Workshop on Finiteness, Clause Types, and Cartography, at International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 16, Graz University, Graz, Austria, June 28-30.
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘Re-examine the syntax and semantics of the wh-adjunct zěnme ’how’ in Chinese’, The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-29), Macau University of Science and Technology, May 27-29.
Victor Junnan Pan (2023). ‘漢語句末助詞的句法 (The Syntax of Sentence-Final Particles in Chinese)’, invited talk at The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-29), Macau University of Science and Technology, May 27-29.
Research Interests
Theoretical linguistics
- Formal linguistics; generative syntax;
- The Minimalist Program: MERGE and its properties (Markovian MERGE, free MERGE, etc.), Workspace, (long distance) Agree, Move, Phase, Labeling;
- Adjunction and labeling;
- 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;
- Interface: syntax-semantics, syntax-information structure, syntax-prosody;
- Diachronic Chinese syntax; object fronting;
- Comparative syntax: Chinese, Chinese dialects, French, English.
How to join my team: Admission / Recruitment (Year-round)
My team works on generative syntax, especially on the Minimalist Program. Please make sure that you have the relevant educational/research background before applying.
- PhD candidates: Please send me your academic CV along with your PhD research proposal.
- Postdoc: Please send me your full academic CV. Applicants should have an international background and prove good research ability.
- Research Assistant: Please send me your academic CV along with a writing sample in English (course work, short essay, degree thesis, etc.). Applicants should already hold a Master’s degree, demonstrate a good command of academic writing in English, and show familiarity with generative syntax. Preference is given to applicants with background in Chinese Minority languages, Chinese dialects, or languages other than English and Mandarin Chinese.
Projects
- 2025-2027 Minimalist derivation of discourse particles: a comparative survey, General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council (RGC), HKD$909,228.
- 2020-2022 CUHK Modern Languages Curriculum Revision Exercises, Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG), CUHK, HKD$364,000
- 2020-2021 Two types of Empty Categories in A’ dependency: Syntax and Processing, Direct Grant for Research, Faculty of Arts, CUHK, HKD$89,996.
Education
| 2016 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (H.D.R.) in Linguistics (法國國家語言學博士生導師資格文憑) | |
| Title: A’-dependencies in Mandarin Chinese: interrogatives, left-periphery and resumptivity Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF)-UMR 7110, Department of Linguistics, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 | |
| Committee members: | Alain Rouveret, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 Hamida Demirdache, Université de Nantes Caterina Donati, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 Waltraud Paul, external reviewer, CRLAO, CNRS-EHESS Alain Peyraube, chair of the committee, CRLAO, CNRS-EHESS Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, external reviewer, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan |
| 2007 PhD(Doctorat in France) in Linguistics (語言學博士學位) | |
| Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes-EA 3827, Department of Linguistics, University of Nantes, Nantes, France Thesis: Interrogation and quantification: the role and the function of the interrogative particles and elements in Mandarin Chinese. (written in French) | |
| Committee members: | Paul Boucher, Université de Nantes Hamida Demirdache, Université de Nantes Waltraud Paul, external reviewer, CRLAO, CNRS-EHESS Alain Peyraube, chair of the committee, CRLAO, CNRS-EHESS Jean-Yves Pollock, external reviewer, Université de Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée |
| 2004 Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) (Master Recherche in France) in Linguistics (深入研究文憑/研究型碩士) | |
| Department of Linguistics, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France. Thesis: Wh-questions in mandarin Chinese: the status of wh-words and interrogative particles. (written in French) | |
| Committee members: | Paul Boucher, Hamida Demirdache |
| 2003 Maîtrise (in France) in English Linguistics | |
| Department of English, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France. Thesis: Interrogative constructions in English and in Chinese. (written in English) | |
| Committee members: | Paul Boucher, Hamida Demirdache |
Qualification
| 2017 qualification obtained for Professeur des universités (獲得法國正教授職稱資格), Conseil National Universitaire (CNU ‘National Council for Universities’), France. |
| 2008 qualification obtained for Maître de conférences (獲得法國副教授職稱資格), Conseil National Universitaire (CNU ‘National Council for Universities’), France. |
Work Experience
| Since January 2019 | Professor in Linguistics Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2008-2018 | Maître de Conférences en langue et linguistique chinoises, titulaire, Université Paris Diderot- Paris 7 (Associate Professor in Chinese language and linguistics, with tenure, University Paris Diderot- Paris 7) Research affiliation: Researcher of Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF) – UMR 7110, CNRS & Paris 7 |
| 2007-2008 | Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche (ATER), Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3 (Contract teaching and research position in Chinese Language, University Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3) Teaching affiliation: Department of Chinese studies, University Paul Valéry- Montpellier 3 |
| – Short time appointment: | |
| March 2018 | Guest professor School of foreign languages, Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大學外國語學院) |
Academic honors and prizes
| 2017 | Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (法蘭西大學學院青年院士) (http://www.iufrance.fr/les-membres-de-liuf/membre/1716-victor-pan.html) |
| 2017 | Prime d’encadrement doctoral et de recherche (PEDR) Doctoral Supervision and Research Award of the French government (法國“國家優秀科研及優秀博士生導師獎勵津貼”) |
| 2017-2019 | Nationally selected Full Time Scientific Researcher at the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale (CRLAO)-UMR 8563, in the ‘Délégation au CNRS’ program. Team II: Syntax and semantics of modern Chinese, Korean and Japanese: formal approach and cognitive approach |
Academic service
– Reviewer for international journals (since 2009)
Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge
Concentric, National Taiwan Normal University
Current Studies of Chinese Linguistics
Folia Linguistica, De Gruyter Mouton
Glossa
International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, John Benjamins
Journal of Chinese Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Springer
Journal of French Language Studies, Cambridge
Journal of historical syntax
Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge
Language and Linguistics (《語言暨語言學》), John Benjamins
Languages, Switzerland
Lingua, Elsevier (before 2016)
Lingua Sinica, Springer
Linguistic Analysis
Linguistics and Philosophy, Springer
Linguistic Inquiry, MIT
Linguistic variation, John Benjamins
Linguistics, De Gruyter Mouton
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Springer
Open Linguistics, De Gruyter Mouton
Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, De Gruyter Mouton
Studia Linguistica, Wiley
Studies on Chinese Linguistics, De Gruyter Mouton
The Linguistic Review, De Gruyter Mouton
當代語言學 (Contemporary Linguistics), Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
語言學論叢, Peking University
語言學研究 (Linguistic Research), School of Foreign Languages, Peking University
– Executive committee member of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) 2015-2017.
– Treasurer and executive committee member of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL) since 2013-2018.
– Reviewer for research monographs and book chapters:
Oxford University Press
Cambridge University Press
Routledge
– Organization committee (selected):
14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV) , The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 6-8, 2024.
13th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIII) 2022 Online Special, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 4-7, 2022.
The 28th Annual Conference of The International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 20-22, 2022.
The 8th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Hangzhou, China, November 23-25, 2018.
The 10th international conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, Milan, Italy, September 27-29, 2018
Theoretical East Asian Linguistics – TEAL 9, Nantes, France, 25-26 September 2014
Taught courses
- In the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (since 2019)
- LING6903 Syntactic Theory (The Minimalist Program): MPhil & PhD level
- LING5102A Foundations II: Syntax and Semantics: MA level
- LING3104 Syntax II: undergraduate level
- LING3107 Comparative Grammar: undergraduate level
- Weekly Syntax Reading Group in CUHK: (since 2019)
- Other course:
- In the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (since 2019)
2019 Linguistics Institute of China (中國語言學書院暑期核心課程)
Syntax I: first year (Principles & Parameters / The Government & Binding Theory)
Syntax II: Second year (The Minimalist Program)
2018 Guest professor
Beijing Institute of Technology, School of foreign languages (北京理工大學外國語學院)
Course: A’-dependency and locality: From GB to MP (A’ 型依存關系和局域性原則：從管約論到最簡方案)
2016 10th EACL Summer School in Chinese Linguistics
Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
Course : Sentence final particles in Mandarin Chinese: from syntax to discourse
2014 9th EACL Spring School in Chinese Linguistics
Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
Course: Syntax of Modern Chinese: A generative introduction to topic, focus and wh-questions
PhD supervision (CUHK only)
- Tingting Weng 翁汀汀 (Since 2024), Under Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS).
- Chenghao Hu 胡承灝 (since 2023), under the CUHK Provost’s Strategic Allocation of Centrally-funded RPg Places – International Joint Supervision of PhD Students scheme. (The international host-collaborator: Prof Klaus Abels, University College London, UK)
- Xiangyu Li 李翔羽 (since 2023), CUHK university provided studentship.
- Zetao Xu 徐澤韜 (since 2022), under the CUHK Provost’s Strategic Allocation of Centrally-funded RPg Places – International Joint Supervision of PhD Students scheme. (The international host-collaborator: Prof Roberta D’Alessandro, Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Yangfei Zhu 朱揚飛 (since 2021), CUHK university provided studentship.
- Yuqiao Du 杜雨橋 (since 2020), under the CUHK Strategic Area – China Studies PhD Fellowship Scheme.
Committee member (selected)
| 2022 | Sub-panel member (Languages and Literature) for Periodic Assessment of Research, Development, Artistic and Other Creative Activities. Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. |
| 2009-2016 | Co-president of the ‘permission to print’ for the examination papers of the national Bacalauréat degree (secondary school graduation): Chinese language. (pointed by the Ministry for Education of the French Government). (法國國家教育部及國家考試院任命的高中畢業會考（文、理）中文科目委員會兩名聯合主席之一，負責法國本土、海外各省和在不同國家的法國學校等各考區的試卷的命題、最後審核及印刷授權。) |
| 2014-2015 | Searching Committee Member for the Associate Professor position for Chinese language teaching, University de Picardie Jules Verne. |
| 2012-2013 | Searching Committee Member for the Associate Professor position for Chinese language teaching, Paul-Valéry University- Montpellier III |
| 2012-2013 | Searching Committee Member for the Associate Professor position for Chinese language teaching, University of Nantes |
| 2009-2010 | Searching Committee Member for the Associate Professor position for Chinese language teaching, University of Paris 7 |
| 2009-2010 | Searching Committee Member for the Permanent Teaching track position (PRAG/PRAC) for Chinese language teaching, University of Paris 7 |
| 2010-2011 | Searching Committee Member for the Permanent Teaching track position (PRAG/PRAC) for Chinese language teaching, University of Paris 7 (PRAG/PRAC) |
| 2010-2011 | Committee Member for the National Competition Recruitment of the secondary school teaching positions (as public service positions) (CAPES). |
Administrative responsibilities (selected)
| Since 2023 | Chairperson of the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| 2022-2024 | Member of Faculty Research Committee, Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| 2019-2024 | Head of Graduate Division in Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| Since 2019 | Member of Senate Committee on Language Enhancement, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| 2021-2023 | Observer in Senate Committee on General Education (SCGE) and its Standing Committee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| 2019-2023 | Advisor for Modern Languages, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| 2016-2017 | Head of the Department of Chinese Studies, University of Paris Diderot – Paris 7, France. |
| 2016-2017 | Scientific Committee member of the School of East Asian Language and Civilization, University of Paris 7. |
| 2015-2018 | Member of the Conseil National Universitaire (CNU ‘National Council for Universities’), Section 15 (Chinese), pointed by le Secrétaire d’État chargé de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche. (Responsible for qualification, promotion and long academic leave of university professors) 法國國家教育部高等教育及科研秘書長直接任命的“法國國家大學委員會”委員，負責全國大學教員職稱資格評定、晉升及學術假期批准。 |
| 2011-2015 | Member of the Conseil National Universitaire (CNU) (CNU ‘National Council for Universities’), Section 15 (Chinese), elected. |
| 2009-2016 | Director of Pedagogy (Directeur des études), Department of Chinese Studies, University of Paris 7, France. |
Publication
A. Books (Research monographs):
– In English:
| Pan, Victor Junnan (2019) Architecture of The Periphery in Chinese: Cartography and Minimalism. [ Routledge Studies on Chinese Linguistics], London/New York: Routledge. 245 pages. 2019 Hardback, e-book (1st edition) 2022. Paperback, 1st edition (ISBN 9781032401683) |  |
| Pan, Victor Junnan (2016) Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese: A Minimalist Account. [Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs (TiLSM)], vol. 298. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. 310 pages. (https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/475759) |  |
– In French:
| Pan, Victor Junnan (2017) La syntaxe du chinois : une perspective comparative (‘Syntax of Chinese: A Comparative Perspective’ written in French). [ Études Linguistiques]. Arras: Artois Presses Université. 325 pages. (http://apu.univ-artois.fr/Revues-et-collections/Etudes-linguistiques/La-Syntaxe-du-chinois-une-perspective-comparative) |  |
| Pan, Victor Junnan (2016) La résomptivité en chinois mandarin dans le programme minimaliste (‘Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese in Minimalist Program’ written in French), [ Domaines étrangers et langues de France], Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, 230 pages. (http://www.lambert-lucas.com/la-resomptivite-en-chinois) |  |
| Pan, Victor Junnan (2011) Interrogatives et quantification en chinois mandarin: une approche générative (‘Interrogatives and Quantification Theory in Mandarin Chinese: A Generative Approach’ written in French), [Rivages Linguistiques], Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 250 pages. (http://www.pur-editions.fr/detail.php?idOuv=2686) |  |
B. Edited volumes
| Li, Xiangyu, Zetao Xu, Yuqiao Du, Chenghao Hu, Zhongyang Yu, Zhuo Chen, Victor Junnan Pan (2024). Proceedings of the 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV), Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Open access: https://ling.cuhk.edu.hk/glowxiv/Proceedings_GLOWinAsia14th.pdf) |  |
| Pan, Victor Junnan, Mamoru Saito and Yuqiao Du (2024). Workspace, MERGE, and Labelling. Co-edited volume of special issue, The Linguistic Review, volume 41, issue 1. (https://www-degruyter-com.easyaccess2.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/journal/key/tlir/41/1/html) |  |
| Du, Yuqiao, Zhuo Chen, Xiangyu Li, Zetao Xu and Victor Junnan Pan (2022). Proceedings of the 13th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIII) 2022 Online Special, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Open access) (https://ling.cuhk.edu.hk/glowxiii/Proceedings_of_GLOW-In_Asia_XIII.pdf) |  |
| Pan, Victor Junnan and Waltraud Paul (2018). The syntax of complex sentences in Chinese. Co-edited volume of special issue, Linguistic Analysis, Volume 42, Issue 1-2. (https://www.linguisticanalysis.com/volumes-volume-42-issue-1-2/) |  |
C. Peer-reviewed journal articles (English and Chinese only):
Pan, Victor Junnan and Yuqiao Du (2024). ‘A multi-dimensional derivation model under the free-MERGE system: labor division between syntax and the C-I interface’, The Linguistic Review, Volume 41, Issue 1, 85-117. (open access https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/tlr-2024-2004/html)
Pan, Victor Junnan, Mamoru Saito and Yuqiao Du (2024). ‘Introduction: workspace, MERGE and labelling’, The Linguistic Review, Volume 41, Issue 1, 1-5. (open access https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/tlr-2024-2001/html)
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘A case of pseudo-optionality as a consequence of language contact’, Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3, 285-299. (Open access https://lingv.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RRL-3-2023-7.-XuJunnan.pdf)
Pan, Victor Junnan and Chang Liu (2023) ‘Focus constructions involving shì in Mandarin Chinese’, Languages, Volume 8, Issue 2:103. (https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020103) (Open access)
潘俊楠 徐澤韜 (2022). ‘現代漢語疑問詞的句法層級再探 (On the Syntactic Hierarchy of Wh-words in Mandarin Chinese)’, 語言學論叢, 1, 100-124. [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan (2022). ‘Deriving Head-Final Order in the Peripheral Domain of Chinese’, Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 53, Issue 1, 121-154. (https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00396) [Draft]
潘俊楠 (2020). ‘漢語A’-型依存結構在最簡方案下的句法推導’(Minimalist Derivation of A’-dependency in Chinese), 當代語言學 (Contemporary Linguistics), Volume 22, No. 2, 159-181. [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan (2019). ‘Derivation of the Apparent Narrow Scope of Sentence-Final Particles in Chinese: A Reply to Erlewine (2017)’, Studies in Chinese Linguistics, Volume 39, Issue 2, 99-126.
(https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/scl/39/2/article-p99.xml)
Paul, Waltraud and Victor Junnan Pan (2018) ‘Introduction’. In V. J. Pan & W. Paul (eds.) The syntax of complex sentences in Chinese. Special issue, Linguistic Analysis, Volume 42, Issue (1-2), 1-16.
(https://www.linguisticanalysis.com/volumes-volume-42-issue-1-2/ ) [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan and Waltraud Paul (2018) ‘The syntax of complex sentences in Mandarin Chinese: A comprehensive overview and analyses’. In Pan & Paul (eds.) The syntax of complex sentences in Chinese. Special issue of Linguistic Analysis, Volume 42, Issue (1-2), 63-161.
(https://www.linguisticanalysis.com/volumes-volume-42-issue-1-2/ ) [Draft]
潘俊楠 (2018). ‘最簡方案下的標籤理論 (Labeling in the Minimalist Program)’, 語言學研究 (Linguistic Research), Volume 25, 5-15. [Draft]
Fernandez-Vest, M.M.Jocelyne, Marri Amon, Karl-Erland Gadelii, Victor Junnan Pan, Jirasak Achariyayos and Danh-Thàn Do-Hurinville (2017) ‘Information structuring of dialogic pairs from a cross-linguistic perspective: Evidence from some European and Asian languages’, Language Typology and Universals (STUF), Volume 70, Issue 3, 391-453.
(https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/stuf.2017.70.issue-3/stuf-2017-0020/stuf-2017-0020.xml)
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016). ‘Resumptivity and Two Types of A’-dependencies in Minimalist Program’, International Journal of Chinese Linguistics (IJChL), Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 46-79.
(https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ijchl.3.1.02pan/details) [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan and Waltraud Paul (2016). ‘Why Chinese SFPs are neither optional nor disjunctors’, Lingua, Volume 170, p. 23-34.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384115002004) [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan (2015) ‘Mandarin Peripheral Construals at Syntax-Discourse Interface’, The Linguistic Review, Volume 32, Issue 4, p. 819-868.
(https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/tlir.2015.32.issue-4/tlr-2015-0005/tlr-2015-0005.xml) [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan (2014) ‘Wh-ex-situ in Chinese: Mapping Between Information Structure and Split CP’, Linguistic Analysis, Volume 39, Issues 3-4, p. 371-413.
(http://www.linguisticanalysis.com/volumes/39issue3-4) [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan (2011) ‘ATB-topicalization in Mandarin Chinese: an Intersective Operator Analysis’, Linguistic Analysis, Volume 37, Issues 1-2, p. 231-272.
(https://www.linguisticanalysis.com/volume-37-issue-1-2/) [Draft]
D. Peer-reviewed book chapters:
Pan, Victor Junnan (To appear) ‘Copy and Move: Motivation and Derivation’, in The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism, Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Evelina Leivada (eds.). Cambridge University Press.
Pan, Victor Junnan and Yihe Jiao (2023) ‘Object-Fronting in Archaic Chinese’. in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Mark Aronoff et al. (eds.), Oxford University Press. (https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.1013) [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan (2023). ‘Quantification and wh-in-situ in Mandarin Chinese’. In Chinese Linguistics in Rome, Linda Badan and Chiara Romagnoli (eds.) [Collection des Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale]. CRLAO, EHESS, 93-132.
Pan, Victor Junnan and Bin Zhu (2023) ‘On the Syntax of Causal Clauses in Mandarin Chinese’, in On the Variation of Causal Clauses, Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Constanze Fleczoreck (eds.), [Studies in Language Companion Series], John Benjamins, 221-249.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2022) ‘Resumption in Chinese’. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Mark Aronoff, et al. (eds.). Oxford University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.897
Pan, Victor Junnan (2021) ‘Sentence-final particles in Chinese’. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Mark Aronoff, et al. (eds.). Oxford University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.882 [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan (2020) ‘Ambiguïté des syntagmes interrogatifs en chinois mandarin’, in 法语国家与地区汉语教育研究(第一辑), Z. Yang & A. Arslangul (eds.), 北京语言大学出版社[Beijing Language and Cultural University Press], 202-217.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2019) ‘System repairing strategy at interface: Wh-in-situ in Mandarin Chinese’, in Interface in Grammar, Jianhua Hu & Haihua Pan (eds.), [Language Faculty and Beyond (LFAB)], John Benjamins, 133-166. [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan (2017) ‘Optional projections in the left-periphery in Mandarin Chinese’. In Studies on Syntactic Cartography (《句法制图理论研究》[Jùfǎ zhìtú lǐlùn yánjīu]), Fuzhen Si (eds.), Beijing: 中国社会科学出版社 (Zhōngguó shèhuì chūbǎnshè) [China Social Sciences Press], p. 216-248. [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan and Waltraud Paul (2017) ‘What you see is what you get: Chinese sentence-final particles as head-final complementisers’, in J. Bayer & V. Struckmeier (eds.) Discourse Particles – Formal Approaches to their Syntax and Semantics, [Linguistiche Arbeiten], Berlin : Mouton De Gruyter, p. 49-77.
(https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110497151/9783110497151-003/9783110497151-003.xml) [Draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan (2015) ‘Syntactic and Prosodic Marking of Contrastiveness in Spoken Chinese’, in Fernandez-Vest, M.M.Jocelyne & Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. (eds.), Information Structuring of Spoken Language from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, [Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, TILSM 283]. Berlin/Munich/Boston: De Gruyter, p. 191-210.
(https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110368758/9783110368758-010/9783110368758-010.xml)
E. Conference proceedings:
Li, Xiangyu and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘How to Label via Feature-Sharing: Case of Nominal Structures in Chinese’, in 2022 Linearization – Proceedings of the 24th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Tae Sik Kim & Jungu Kang (eds.), The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Seoul: Hankook Munhwasa: 82-97. [draft]
Pan, Victor Junnan (2017) ‘Phasal Agree as Precondition on Multiple Transfers: Evidence From A-bar Dependency in Chinese’, in 2017 The Syntax-Morphology Interface in Generative Grammar: Proceedings of The 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Changguk Yim (eds.), The Korean Generative Grammar Circle: 261-276.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2015) ‘Prosodic Licensing of Wh-in-situ in Mandarin Chinese’, in the Proceedings of The 27th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, (ed.) Tao, Hongyin et al., University of California, Los Angeles, p. 305-321.
(https://naccl.osu.edu/proceedings/naccl-27)
Pan, Victor Junnan (2014) ‘Deriving Special Questions in Mandarin Chinese: A Comparative Study’, in 2014 Comparative Syntax: Proceedings of The 16th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Jong-Un Park and Il-Jae Lee, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle: 349-368. [Draft]
F. Summary in international journals:
Pan, Victor Junnan (2007) ‘Résumé de la thèse de doctorat Interrogation et quantification : le rôle et la fonction des particules et des éléments interrogatifs en chinois mandarin’, Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, Vol.36 (1), p.128-138.
(http://www.persee.fr/doc/clao_0153-3320_2007_num_36_1_1837)
G. Articles in other journals
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016) « La linguistique générative : une étude sur le langage humain d’un point de vue biologique », Le CNRS en Chine, La vie des laboratoires, magazine published by Bureau du CNRS en Chine, N° 23, Autumn 2016.
(http://www.cnrs.fr/derci/IMG/pdf/cnrsenchine_23.pdf)
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016) (Chinese version) “生成語言學：從認知系統的生物性出發來研究人類語言的異同”. 《CNRS 在中國－實驗室生活》, 法國國家科學研究中心中國代表處期刊，N° 23, 秋季刊 2016.
(http://cn.ambafrance.org/IMG/pdf/cnrsenchine_23_final_ch-site_leger.pdf)
H. Invited talks in international conferences and workshops
Pan, Victor Junnan (2024). ‘Free MERGE under SMT: derivation with Multiple Dimensions and Parallel Workspaces’ invited talk at The Syntax and Semantics Workshop (ICSS): “Advancing Beyond the Miracle Creed for K-Humanities”, annual conference of The Society of Modern Grammar (SMOG), Andong University, Andong city, South Korea, August 19-21. (video link: https://www.youtube.com/live/TIxMdKwQnRQ (starting from 2:13:45)
Pan, Victor Junnan (2023). 漢語句末助詞的句法 (The Syntax of Sentence-Final Particles in Chinese), invited talk at The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-29), Macau University of Science and Technology, May 27-29.
Pan, Victor Junnan and Zetao Xu (2022). ‘現代漢語疑問副詞的句法層級’ (On the syntactic hierarchy of the wh-adverbs in Chinese), invited talk at 漢語研究國際青年語言學家高峰論壇, Chongqing Normal University (重慶師範大學), Chongqing, China, December 10-11.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2021). ‘A Comparative Study on Wh-quantification’, keynote speech at The 5th International Conference on Biolinguistics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, December 25-26.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2021). ‘The Latest Development of MERGE (2019-2021)’, with Yuqiao Du, invited talk at The 9th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, November 5-7.
潘俊楠 (2021). ‘漢語前置焦點分裂結構和話題結構的句法推導’, invited talk at 第八屆現代漢語句法語意前沿討論會, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China, November 20-22.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2019). ‘On the derivation of wide scope and narrow scope of C-heads in Chinese’, keynote speech at the Third International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-3), University College Cork, December 12-14.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2019). ‘Wh-quantification: interface strategies and narrow syntax’, keynote speech at The International Symposium on Interfaces un Generative linguistics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, November 23-24.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2019). ‘On A’-dependency in Chinese’, invited talk at the workshop Labeling and Syntactic Architecture, Sogang University, Seoul, November 2.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2019). ‘句末助詞表層窄域的推導’, invited talk at 第七屆現代漢語句法語意前沿研討會, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, November 8-10.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2019). ‘Derivation of Functional Projections in Chinese Peripheral Domain’, invited talk given at The 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia 12) and the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 21), Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, August 7-9.
(http://sicogg.or.kr/GLOW-Asia-12-2019/)
Pan, Victor Junnan (2019). ‘Complex Sentences in Chinese: A Generative Perspective’, keynote speech at The International Symposium on ComplexSentences (ISCS), Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, June 28 – July 1.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2019). ‘Phasal Agree and A’-dependency in Mandarin Chinese’, invited talk at The Fourth International Symposium on Prominence and locality in Natural Language, Beijing Language and Cultural University, China, June 1.
Pan, Victor Junnan and J. Choi, L. Dao and S. Nishio (2018) ‘Interface Strategy to wh-quantification: A Comparative Approach’, invited talk at 8th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, 23-25 Novembre, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2017). Two Types of Pronouns and Reconstruction Effects in Mandarin Chinese’, invited talk at the Workshop on DP. Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, November 11.
潘俊楠 (2017). ‘依存結構中的複指關系鏈(Yīcún jiégòu zhōng de fùzhǐ guānxìliàn)’ [Resumptive dependency in Mandarin Chinese], The 2nd Chinese-French Linguistics Forum (CASS of China & EHESS of France), Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences & College of Liberal Arts of Hubei University, Wuhan, China, October 30 – November 1.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2017). ‘The Form and Function of Transformations: From Syntactic Structures to Minimalism’, keynote speech at Symposium on Generative Grammar since Syntactic Structures – A critical look at some major themes, Linguistics Institute of China & Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China, July, 29.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2017). ‘Peripheral Projections in Mandarin Chinese’, invited talk given at the Workshop on the Skeleton of Language: Syntactic Cartography and Distributed Morphology, Zhejiang University, China, 12-14 April.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016). ‘Optional Peripherial Projections in Mandarin Chinese’, invited talk given at the “X-bar Workshop” 2016 Young Scholars Forum. Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), Beijing, China, 19 December.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2015) ‘Wh-ex-situ and Information Structure in Chinese’, Workshop “What the topic is (not) about”, 28th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, CRLAO, INALCO, Paris, France, 2-3 July.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2015) ‘從信息結構出發來討論漢語疑問短語的前置現象’ (Cóng xìnxī jiégòu chūfā lái tǎolùn hànyǔ yíwènduǎnyǔ de qiánzhì xiànxiàng) [Wh-ex-situ in Mandarin Chinese and information structure], Colloque franco-chinois: Nouveaux horizons en linguistique chinoise, CRLAO, CNRS, Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Paris, 22-23 June.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2012) ‘Ambigüité des syntagmes interrogatifs en mandarin : une explication pour les enseignants mais pas nécessairement pour les apprenants de langue’, talk given at ‘Colloque international : enseignement du chinois langue étrangère aux francophones’, INALCO, Paris, France, 1-2 June
Pan, Victor Junnan (2011) ‘Interface Strategy in Mandarin: When Syntax Interacts With Prosody and Discourse’, invited talk for Joint Symposium on the Interfaces of Grammar, organized by Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the City University of Hong Kong, Beijing, China, 19-21 October.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2010) ‘Topicalisation-ATB en chinois mandarin et l’opérateur d’intersection’, invited talk for Journées d’étude de linguistique sur l’Asie Orientale, LCAO, University of Paris 7, Paris, France, 9-10 September.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2009) ‘On the Syntax and Interpretation of why-like what in Chinese’, invited talk for Les journées d’études organized by the research project “Types de phrases – cartographie et typologie” (Fed. Typologie et universaux linguistiques, CNRS), Paris, France,
Pan, Victor Junnan (2008) ‘Special Interrogatives in Mandarin Chinese’, invited talk for Les journées d’études organized by the research project “Types de phrases – cartographie et typologie” (Fed. Typologie et universaux linguistiques, CNRS), Paris, France, Paris, France.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2008) ‘Wh-in-situ et questions rhétorique en chinois mandarin’, invited talk for Les journées d’études organized by the research project “Types de phrases – cartographie et typologie” (Fed. Typologie et universaux linguistiques, CNRS), Paris, France.
I. Invited Seminars, Courses and Talks
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘A case of pseudo-optionality as a consequence of language contact’, CUHK-EHESS Symposium on Language and Cultural Contact Along the Frontiers of China, Ancient and Modern, The ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong, March 28.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2024). A multi-dimensional derivation model under the free-MERGE system: labor division between syntax and the C-I interface. Invited lecture given at the English department of Dongguk University, February 1.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2023). ‘Deriving The Apparent Narrow Scope of Sentence-Final Particles in Chinese’, invited talk at Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, January 14.
潘俊楠 (2022). ‘漢語句末助詞表層窄域的句法推導’, invited talk for serial lectures at “精是講堂”, Chongqing Normal University (重慶師範大學), Chongqing, China, December 27.
潘俊楠 (2022). ‘On the Syntactic Hierarchy of Wh-words in Mandarin Chinese’ (現代漢語疑問詞的句法層級再探)’. Invited talk for Distinguished Professors Forum (廣東外語外貿大學著名教授論壇) given at the Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, May 12.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2022). ‘Deriving A’-dependencies in Mandarin Chinese: A minimalist Account.’ Invited talk given at the Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, January 19.
潘俊楠 (2021). 漢語分裂焦點和話題結構的句法推導 (Cleft-Focus and Topic Structures in Mandarin Chinese)，華南師範大學外國語學院語言學前沿系列論壇-漢藏語句法研究, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, July 11.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2021). A Comparative Study on Wh-quantification. Talk given at the HKU linguistics seminar at the Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, 18 March.
潘俊楠 (2019). ‘Architecture of the Periphery in Mandarin Chinese’. Distinguished Professors Forum talk (廣東外語外貿大學著名教授論壇) given at the Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2019). ‘Minimalist Derivation of A’-dependency in Mandarin Chinese’. Talk given the Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2018). ‘Architecture of the Sentence Periphery in Chinese’, course given at the Series of Seminars on Second Language Acquisition and Chinese Linguistics, School of Asian Studies, University College Cork, Ireland, 16 October.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2018). ‘Main Clause Phenomena of Peripheral Functional Projections in Chinese’. Talk given in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 22 March.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2018). ‘A Minimalist Derivation of Head-Final Order in the Peripheral Domain’. Talk given for Departmental seminars in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 6 March.
潘俊楠 (2017). ‘最簡方案下漢語的複指關系(Zuìjiǎn fāng’àn xià hànyǔ de fùzhǐ guānxì)’ [Resumptivity in Chinese in the framework of the Minimalist Program]. Invited talk given at School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University & The China Center for Linguistic and Strategic Studies, Nanjing, China, 21 November.
潘俊楠 (2017). ‘漢語中的關系化和話題化 (Hànyǔ zhōng de guānxihuà hé huàtíhuà) [Relativization and left-dislocation in Mandarin Chinese]’. Invited talk given at the Center for the Study of Language and Cognition. Zhejiang university, China, 11 April.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016). ‘Wh-ex-situ and the Left Periphery in Mandarin Chinese’, course given at the 1st Series of Seminars on Second Language Acquisition and Chinese Linguistics, School of Asian Studies, University College Cork, Ireland, 26 October.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016). ‘Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese: A Minimalist Perspective’, talks given for Departmental seminars in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 29 August.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016). ‘Reconstruction Effects in A’-dependencies: A Narrow Syntactic Account’, talks given for Departmental seminars in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 30 August.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016). ‘Left-Periphery at Syntax-Discourse Interface: A Cartographic Approach’, talks given for Departmental seminars in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 31 August.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016). ‘Logical Form in the Architecture of Grammar’, talks given for Lectures on Theoretical Linguistics Series in the Linguistic department of Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, 14 July.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016). ‘Resumptive Chains and Locality’, talks given for Lectures on Theoretical Linguistics Series in the Linguistic department of Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, 15 July.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016). ‘Sentence final particles in Mandarin Chinese: from syntax to discourse’, course given at the 10th EACL Summer School in Chinese Linguistics, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France, 6-10 June.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016) ‘De la structure syntaxique à la Forme Logique dans la langue chinoise’, course given at the research seminar for Master’s program of l’Université Rennes 2, Rennes France.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2014) ‘La syntaxe comparée: le déplacement wh-, wh-in-situ et les effets d’îlot (Comparative Syntaxe: WH-movement, WH-in-situ and Island effects)’ (in French). 2 hours’ course for the Research Seminar for the Master degree, Department of Chinese Studies, Université Rennes 2.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2014) ‘Wh-ex-situ in Mandarin Chinese: Mapping Between Information Structure and Split CP’, Department of Foreign Languages, Beijing Language and Culture University.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2014) ‘Syntax of Modern Chinese: A generative introduction to topic, focus and wh-questions’, courses for the 9th EACL Spring School in Chinese Linguistics, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
Pan, Victor Junnan (2014). ‘Question Types in Mandarin Chinese: From Question-Answer Pairs to the Information Structure’, 2 hours course for the PhD Seminar Information Structuring of Spoken Discourse : Question-Answer Pairs and Genre (ED 268, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3) organized by M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2013) ‘Biolinguistique, Grammaire Universelle et la faculté du langage: introduction sur la linguistique générative (Biolinguistics, Universal Grammar and Language Faculty: An Introduction to Generative Linguistics) » (in French). 2 hours’ course for the Research Seminar for the Master degree, Department of Chinese Studies, Université Rennes 2.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2013) ‘Structure informationnelle en mandarin orale : l’interface syntaxe-prosodie ( Information Structure in Spoken Mandarin: Synatax-Prosody Interface’ (in French). 2 hours course for the PhD Seminar ‘Typologie et dialogue : la structuration informationnelle des questions et des réponses’ (ED 268, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3) organized by M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest.
J. Papers presented at refereed international conferences:
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘On poly-definiteness and the structure of DP in nDrapa’, paper presented at Workshop: Special definites, demonstratives, and pronouns – The 24th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest (CIDL24), Bucharest, Romania, 15-16 November.
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘Revisit the clausal approach to comparative deletion in Mandarin Chinese’, paper presented The 12th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL- 12), Roma Tre University, September 19-20.
Yu, Zhongyang and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘An Agree account for Sogdian second position clitics’, paper presented at the joint conference of The 26th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 26) and The 18th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 18), Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, August 22-24.
Hu, Chenghao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘Plural Markers and Classifiers as Anti-labelers in Japanese and Chinese’, paper presented at the joint conference of The 26th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 26) and The 18th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 18), Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, August 22-24.
Yu, Zhongyang and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘Split Ergativity in Sogdian Revised’, paper presented at International Symposium on Silk Road Linguistics (絲綢之路語言學國際研討會), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 30-31.
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘Labeling Reduced Structures in Chinese’, paper presented The 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 6-8.
Hu, Chenghao and Victor Junnan Pan (2024) ‘An Agreement Approach to the Peripheral Projection Encoded Finiteness in Mandarin’, poster presented The 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 6-8.
Li, Xiangyu and Victor Junnan Pan (2023). ‘Nominal phrase with relative clause in Mandarin Chinese: Labeling and Antilocality’, talk given at Workshop: Factors in Natural Language Design – the Nominal Domain and Beyond (FIND 2023), Gottingen, December 11-12.
Hu, Chenghao and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘A Workspace-Based Approach to Tag Questions in Mandarin Chinese’, paper presented at Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2023), École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, December 7-9.
Du, Yuqiao and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘A Dual-Thread Model for Relative Clauses: From Acquisition to Typology’, talk given at the International conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-4), Dongguk University, Seoul, August 17-19.
Li, Xiangyu and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘Form-Copy and Verbal Inscriptions: Evidence from Verb-Copying Construction in Chinese’, poster presented at The 25th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 25), Dongguk University, Seoul, August 14-16.
Du, Yuqiao, Victor Junnan Pan et al. (2023) ‘Ergative-Absolutive vs. Nominative-Accusative: Cycles of Feature Permeation’, Colloquium on Cyclicity and the theory of language change, The University of Manchester, July 17-18.
Li, Wenqi and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘The Hierarchical Order of Sentence-Final Aspect Particles in Chinese Jin Dialects’, 36th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics (JLAO36), Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale (CRLAO), Paris, France, July 10-11.
Pan, Victor Junnan and Chenghao Hu (2023) ‘Peripheral Functional Projection encoded Finiteness in Mandarin Chinese’, Workshop on Finiteness, Clause Types, and Cartography, at International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 16, Graz University, Graz, Austria, June 28-30.
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2023) ‘Re-examine the syntax and semantics of the wh-adjunct zěnme ’how’ in Chinese’, The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-29), Macau University of Science and Technology, May 27-29.
Pan, Victor Junnan and Yuqiao Du (2022) ‘A multi-dimensional derivation model under the free-MERGE system: labor division between syntax and the C-I interface’. Talk given for the “Workshop on Workspace, MERGE, and Labelling” at The 13th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIII) 2022 Online Special, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 4-7.
Li, Xiangyu and Victor Junnan Pan (2022) ‘How to Label via Feature-Sharing: Case of Nominal Structures in Chinese’. Talk given at The 24th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 24), Sogang University, Seoul, August 12-14.
Du, Yuqiao and Victor Junnan Pan (2022) A Dual‐Thread Model for Relative Clauses: From Acquisition to Typology, The 28th annual conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 20-22, 2022.
Lee, Tommy Tsz-Ming and Victor Junnan Pan (2022) Licensing VP movement and ellipsis in Mandarin and Cantonese, The 40th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 40), Stanford University, May 13-15, 2022.
Du, Yuqiao and Victor Junnan Pan (2021) ‘漢語名詞性成分的“攪拌”式位移：基於最簡方案加標算法的推導 (Scrambling in Chinese: a labeling-based derivation)’, 第十一屆現代漢語語法國際研討會 (The 11th International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar – ICCCG-11), Heilongjiang University, Ha’erbin, China, July 23-26.
Xu, Zetao and Victor Junnan Pan (2021) “怎麼”與句末助詞共現層級的句法推導 (The cooccurrence of zenme ‘how’ and sentence-final particles in Chinese: the minimalist derivation), 第十一屆現代漢語語法國際研討會 (The 11th International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar – ICCCG-11), Heilongjiang University, Ha’erbin, China, July 23-26.
Zhu, Yangfei and Victor Junnan Pan (2021) ‘江蘇興化方言句末助詞ge的句法層級及在最簡方案框架下的推導 (The minimalist derivation of the sentence-final particle ge in Xinghua dialect in Jiangsu)’, 第十一屆現代漢語語法國際研討會 (The 11th International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar – ICCCG-11), Heilongjiang University, Ha’erbin, China, July 23-26.
Lee, Tommy Tsz-Ming and Victor Junnan Pan (2021) ‘Licensing vP movement and ellipsis in Mandarin and Cantonese’, The 33rd meeting of the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-33), University of Chicago, June 24-25.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2018) ‘Deriving apparent narrow scope of Sentence-Final Particles in Chinese’. The 10th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, Università degli Studi di Milano & Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, September 28-29.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2018) ‘A Comparative Study on Wh-quantification in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese: An Interface Strategy at Morphology-Syntax-Prosody’, collaborated with Jiyoung Choi, Huy Linh Dao and Sumikazu Nishio, 31 Journées de Linguistique sur l’Asie Orientale, CRLAO-EHESS, Paris June 28-29.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2017) ‘Derive Head-Final Order in Mandarin Left-Periphery’. The second International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (IWSC 2017). Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China, October, 28-29.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2017) ‘Phasal Agree as Precondition on Multiple Transfers: Evidence From A-bar Dependency in Chinese’. 2017 The Syntax-Morphology Interface in Generative Grammar, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Seoul National University, August, 9-11.
Pan, Victor Junnan and Waltraud Paul (2017) ‘Complex sentences in Chinese revisited’. Poster presentation at The 11th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-11), Taipei, 3-4 June.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2017). ‘Main Clause Phenomena in Subordinate Clauses: Evidence From Mandarin’, Workshop: Subordinate Clauses in Generative Linguistics, University College London, London, 24 May.
Djamouri, Redouane, Waltraud Paul and Victor Junnan Pan (2017) ‘Clitic pronouns in Archaic Chinese’, Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting, University of York, September, 6-9.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2016). ‘A Narrow Syntactic Account for Reconstruction Effects’, The 22nd annual conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-24), Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, 17-19 July.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2015) ‘Peripheral Functional Projections and Main Clause Phenomena’, International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, December 6-7.
Pan, Victor Junnan and Watraud Paul (2015) ‘The fine structure of the left periphery: Sentence-final particles in Mandarin Chinese’, International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, December 6-7.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2015) ‘Questions at Syntax and Prosody Interfaces’. The 27th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, April 3-5.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2014) ‘Deriving Special Questions in Mandarin Chinese: A Comparative Study’. The 16th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Dongkuk University, Seoul, Korea, 6-9 August.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2014) ‘Deriving A’-dependencies by Agree and by Match’. The 22nd annual conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL), University of Maryland, Maryland, USA.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2013) ‘Resumptive Chains: Relativization vs. Left-Dislocation’. The 6th International Spring Forum organized by The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ), Tokyo University, Japan.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2013) ‘A Minimalist Approach to the Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese’. The 21st annual conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL), National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2012) ‘When Wh-questions Interact With Information Structure’. ‘Information Structure in Non-Assertive Speech Acts’, Workshop at the 34th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Frankfurt, Germany.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2012) ‘Four Types of Wh-ex-situ in Chinese’, 25ème Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale, CRLAO, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2012) ‘Syntactic representation of discourse-configurationality in Mandarin’. The 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, (SLE 2012), University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2012) ‘Categories of information structure: On the syntax and semantics of wh-topics and wh-foci’. Workshop: Categories of Information Structure across Languages, organized by the research group ‘Syntax, typology, and information structure’, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2011) ‘The Root/non-root Distinction and Chinese Sentence Final Particles: Division of Labor Between Syntax and Discourse’. The 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, Spain.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2011) ‘Core and adjoined projections in the left/right periphery in Mandarin Chinese’. The 7th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-7), Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2010) ‘On The Adjunct Use of What in Chinese’. The 18th annual conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, IACL-18, Harvard University, MA.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2010) ‘Wh-ex-situ : Mapping Between Information Structure and Split CP’. The 16th Symposium of Modern Chinese Grammar, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2009) ‘Wh-fronting in Chinese’. The 17th annual conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, IACL-17, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris, France.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2009) ‘Optionality of Wh-fronting in Chinese: Topicalization and ATB cases’. The 19th International Symposium of theoretical and applied linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2008) ‘Across-The-Board Constructions in Mandarin Chinese’. 22ème Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale, CRLAO, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2007) ‘Interpreting The Rhetorical Wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese’, 21ème Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale, CRLAO, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2006) ‘Licensing Hierarchy and Wh-in-situ in Mandarin Chinese: Pseudo-intervention Effects, Multiple Wh-questions and Pseudo-island Effects’. The 4th conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, EACL-4, University of Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, Hungary.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2006) ‘Wh-topicalization and Wh-in-situ in Mandarin Chinese’, 20ème Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale, CRLAO, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Pan, Victor Junnan (2005) ‘Wh-in-situ in Mandarin Chinese: An Alternative View’, collaborated with Paul Boucher. The 13th annual conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, IACL-13, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.