Publications

Listed below are publications dealing with Symbiosism as well as some additional literature relevant to this model of language evolution.

George van Driem

2008. ‘The origin of language: Symbiosism and Symbiomism’, pp. 381-400 in John D. Bengtson, ed., In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the Four Fields of Anthropology in Honor of Harold Crane Fleming on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2008. ‘The language organism: Parasite or mutualist?’, pp. 101-112, Vol. 2 in Rick Derksen, Jos Schaeken, Alexander Lubotsky, Jeroen Wiedenhof and Sjoerd Siebinga, eds., Evidence and Counter-Evidence: Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, vol. 33). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.

2007. ‘A holistic approach to the fine art of grammar writing: The Dallas Manifesto’, pp. 93-184 in Novel Kishore Rai, Yogendra Prasad Yadav, Bhim N. Regmi and Balaram Prasain, eds., Recent Studies in Nepalese Linguistics. Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal.

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2005. ‘The language organism: The Leiden theory of language evolution’, pp. 331-340 in James W. Minett and William S-Y. Wang, eds., Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Essays in Evolutionary Linguistics. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

2004. ‘Language as organism: A brief introduction to the Leiden theory of language evolution’, pp. 1-9 in Ying-chin Lin, Fang-min Hsu, Chun-chih Lee, Jackson T.-S. Sun, Hsiu-fang Yang and Dah-ah Ho, eds., Studies on Sino-Tibetan Languages: Papers in Honor of Professor Hwang-cherng Gong on his Seventieth Birthday (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series W-4). Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.

2004. Book Review: ‘Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and Empirical Findings. 2 vols. Ed. by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka. (Studies in Language Companion Series.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. ISBN 1588112640. $80(Hb.)’, Language, 80 (1): 163-165.

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2003. ‘The Language Organism: The Leiden theory of language evolution’, in Jiří Mírovský, Anna Kotěšovcová and Eva Hajičová, eds., Proceedings of the XVIIth International Congress of Linguists, Prague, July 24-29, 2003. Prague: Matfyzpress vydavatelství Matematicko-fyzikální fakulty Univerzity Karlovy.

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2001. Chapter One (pp. 1-203) in Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region, containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language (2 vols.). Leiden: Brill.

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2001. Taal en Taalwetenschap. Leiden: Onderzoeksschool voor Aziatische, Afrikaanse en Amerindische Studies.

Additional reading

van Delft, Dirk 2001. ‘Taal als parasiet’, NRC Handelsblad, 11 augustus 2001, blz. 31 (bijvoegsel Wetenschap & Onderwijs, blz. 1).

Knepper, Simon. 1998. ‘Betreurde talen’, Wetenschap, Cultuur en Samenleving, 27 (6): 68-71.

Kortlandt, Frederik. 2003. ‘The origin and nature of the linguistic parasite’, pp. 241-244 in Brigitte Bauer and Georges-Jean Pinault, eds., Language in Time and Space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.

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Kortlandt, Frederik. 1998. ‘Syntax and semantics in the history of Chinese’, Journal of Intercultural Studies (Osaka), 25: 167-176.

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Kortlandt, Frederik. 1985. ‘A parasitological view of non-constructible sets’, pp. 477-483 in Ursula Pieper and Gerhard Stickel, eds., Studia Linguistica Diachronica et Synchronica: Werner Winter, Sexagenario Anno MCMLXXXIII Gratis Animis ab eius Collegis, Amicis Discipulisque Oblata. Berlin: Mouton.

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Rozendaal, Simon. 1998. ‘De oertaal: Het verschil tussen een pratend mens en een zwijgend dier: taalkundige George van Driem’, blz. 63-76 in De mens, een dier: Denkers aan het front van de wetenschap. Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij.

Salverda, Reinier. 2003. ‘Letter to the Editor’, New Scientist (1 February 2003), 2380: 25.

van Delft, Dirk 2001. ‘Darwinisme en betekenis’, Hypothese (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek), 8 (29): 7-9.

Salverda, Reinier. 1998. ‘Is language a virus? Reflections on the use of biological meta phors in the study of language’, pp. 191-209 in Mark Janse and An Verlinden, eds., Productivity and Creativity. Studies in General and Descriptive Linguistics in Honor of E.M. Uhlenbeck. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Wiedenhof, Jeroen. 2008. ‘Language, brains and the syntactic revolution’, pp. 415-428, Vol. 2 in Rick Derksen, Jos Schaeken, Alexander Lubotsky, Jeroen Wiedenhof and Sjoerd Siebinga, eds., Evidence and Counter-Evidence: Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, vol. 33). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.

Wiedenhof, Jeroen. 1996. ‘Nexus and the birth of syntax’, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 28: 139-150.

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