Publications
Listed below are publications dealing with Symbiosism as well as some additional literature relevant to this model of language evolution.
George van Driem
Kraaijenbrink, Thirsa, and Emma J. Parkin, Denise R. Carvalho-Silva, George van Driem, Guido Barbujani, Chris Tyler-Smith, Mark A. Jobling and Peter de Knijff. 2009. ‘Genetic and linguistic borders in the Himalayan region’, pp. 181-201 in Francesco d’Errico and Jean-Marie Hombert, eds., Becoming Eloquent: Advances in the Emergence of Language, Human Cognition and Modern Cultures. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
van Driem, George. 2009. ‘Genetische evolutie en de evolutie van taal’, Evolutie zit in je genen: Over Darwin en Genomics. Bio-Wetenschappen en Maatschappij, 28 (1): 44-45.
van Driem, George. 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.
van Driem, George. 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.
van Driem, George. 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.
van Driem, George. 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.
van Driem, George. 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.
van Driem, George. 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.
van Driem, George. 2003. ‘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.
van Driem, George. 2001. 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.
van Driem, George. 2001. Taal en Taalwetenschap. Leiden: Onderzoeksschool voor Aziatische, Afrikaanse en Amerindische Studies.
Additional reading
Wiedenhof, Jeroen. 2010. ‘Taal in wording’, blz. 23-34 in Jacob Kroeze, Taeke de Jong, Jeroen Wiedenhof en Simon de Vries, eds., Darwin's Quest: Vier lezingen bij een tentoonstelling. Delft: Vereniging voor Studie- en Studentenbelangen.
Wiedenhof, Jeroen. 2008. ‘Language, brains and the syntactic revolution’, pp. 415-428, Vol. 2 in Rick Derksen, Jeroen Wiedenhof and Sjoerd Siebinga, eds., Evidence and Counter-Evidence (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, vol. 33). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.
Salverda, Reinier. 2003. ‘Letter to the Editor’, New Scientist (1 February 2003), 2380: 25.
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. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.
van Delft, Dirk. 2001. ‘Taal als parasiet’, NRC Handelsblad, 11 augustus 2001, blz. 31 (bijvoegsel Wetenschap & Onderwijs, blz. 1).
van Delft, Dirk 2001. ‘Darwinisme en betekenis’, Hypothese, 8 (29): 7-9.
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.
Knepper, Simon. 1998. ‘Betreurde talen’, Wetenschap, Cultuur en Samenleving, 27 (6): 68-71.
Salverda, Reinier. 1998. ‘Is language a virus? Reflections on the use of biological metaphors in the study of language’, pp. 191-209 in Mark Janse and An Verlinden, eds., Productivity and Creativity. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kortlandt, Frederik. 1998. ‘Syntax and semantics in the history of Chinese’, Journal of Intercultural Studies (Osaka), 25: 167-176.
Wiedenhof, Jeroen. 1996. ‘Nexus and the birth of syntax’, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 28: 139-150.
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.