Victor Junnan Pan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Victor Junnan Pan is involved.
2025 Labeling nominal phrases in Mandarin Chinese Linguistic Variation: Online-First Articles | Article
In this paper, we examine the distribution and syntactic properties of two types of nominal modifiers in Mandarin Chinese: de-less modifiers and deP-modifiers. This paper proposes a model for labeling nominal phrases, including relative clauses treated as deP-modifiers. These nominal modifiers… read more
2023 Chapter 8. On the syntax of causal clauses in Mandarin Chinese Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Constanze Fleczoreck (eds.), pp. 221–249 | Chapter
This chapter examines problems and issues related to the syntax of causal-consequent clauses in Chinese. Conjunctions that introduce these clauses in Chinese do not form a homogeneous syntactic category: Some are analyzed as complementizers, whereas the others as prepositions. Furthermore, both… read more
2019 Chapter 6. System repairing strategy at interface: Wh -in-situ in Mandarin Chinese Interfaces in Grammar, Hu, Jianhua and Haihua Pan (eds.), pp. 133–166 | Chapter
Wh-words in Chinese are ambiguous in specific contexts. In actual conversational situations, when speakers put different combinations of stress with intonation on sentences, the relevant wh-words are no longer ambiguous. The encoded prosodic forms can be analyzed as phonological features in… read more
2016 Resumptivity and two types of A′‑dependencies in the Minimalist Program International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:1, pp. 45–78 | Article
This paper examines the derivation of two types of A′-dependencies — relative clauses and Left-Dislocation structures — in the framework of Minimalist Program based on Mandarin data. Relatives and LD structures demonstrate many distinct syntactic and semantic properties when they contain a gap… read more