Linguists from the two countries examine such topics as the syntax of presentative sentence in Norwegian and Mandarin Chinese, nominal structure in early child Mandarin, temporal reference of bare verbs in Mandarin child language,
pro-drop in Mandarin-Norwegian bilinguals, and the second-language acquisition of the Mandarin Chinese perfective marker -LE by first-language English speakers.
From the latter field we find locatives, metathesis, middle verbs, mimation, modal verbs, mood (Arabic dialects), mood (Standard Arabic), morphology, nasalization, number, numerals, nunation, object (absolute), palatalization, paronomasia, participle, parts of speech, passive, passive (syntax), pausal forms, performatives, personal pronouns (Arabic dialects), phonological merger, phonological split, poetic license, possession, predicate, prepositions, presentatives,
pro-drop, pronominalization, proper names, prothetic vowel, pseudodual, pseudoverbs, punctuation.