由外文系语言、心理与认知学科群举办的语言学讲座于2018年3月22日（周四）在文南楼116室顺利举行，主讲人为法兰西大学学院青年院士、巴黎第七大学副教授潘俊楠。潘教授以“汉语左缘结构中的根句现象”为题，为外文系师生带来了一场精彩讲座。
与句子的核心结构相似，左缘结构中的各功能投射也具有层级性。汉语中既有句子左侧的焦点，又有句子右侧的句末语助词，潘教授在讲座中提出的理论将二者有效地统一于一个层级性的系统结构中，以大量汉语语料为证据，通过比较各功能投射的语义域大小，得出了汉语左缘结构中各功能投射在树形图上的层级位置。而这一层级排序也得到了嵌套性检验的支持。在汉语中，只有S.AspP等层级较低的功能投射可以进行语义和句法的嵌套，这种嵌套性随着层级位置的升高而降低，AttP等位置较高的功能投射无法进行嵌套。潘教授将这一现象解释为主观性区间限制，即左缘结构中功能投射的层级越高，其内容的主观性越强，语义与语篇的关联性使得其更难进行嵌套。
讲座吸引了校内外近50名听众。在讲座后的问答环节，潘教授就表疑问的“没有”和“没”的区别、汉语中右置现象与左缘结构层级的关系等问题与在场的老师和同学们进行了充分的交流，反响热烈。
潘俊楠教授简介：
Professor Victor Junnan Pan is a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (法兰西大学学院青年院士), 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. 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). Specializing in Generative Syntax, Prof. Pan’s research covers Chinese syntax, French syntax, syntax-semantic-discourse interfaces, etc. and the topics he investigated include interrogatives (wh-in-situ, wh-ex-situ), quantification in formal linguistics, information structure (topicalization, focalization), left-periphery, cartography, resumptivity and different types of A'-dependency. Prof. Pan has published journal articles, book chapters and five research monographs both in French and in English. His recent book Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese: A Minimalist Account (Mouton De Gruyter, 2016) not only gives a thorough description of the distribution of resumptive dependencies in different contexts from a comparative perspective but also offers a theoretical account in the framework of the Minimalist Program, which improves the general understanding of resumptivity crosslinguistically. His forthcoming book The Architecture of Periphery in Chinese: Cartography and Minimalism (Routledge, 2018) provides a new perspective on the study of peripheral functional projections in Chinese.
