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li(role='presentation') #[a(href='#introduction') Introduction]
li(role='presentation') #[a(href='#publications') Publications]
li(role='presentation') #[a(href='#talks') Talks]
li(role='presentation') #[a(href='#projects') Software projects]
li(role='presentation') #[a(href='#teaching') Teaching]
li(role='presentation') #[a(href='#service') Service]
li(role='presentation') #[a(href='#grants') Grants]
li(role='presentation') #[a(href='#employment') Employment]
li(role='presentation') #[a(href='#education') Education]
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| Camil Staps 
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section
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| I am a PhD candidate in linguistics.
| My interests are in semantics and its interfaces with morphosyntax and pragmatics.
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| The Bigger Question I try to answer is what language can tell us about how abstract concepts like causation and evidentiality are represented in the mind.
| In particular, I study the relation between spatial and non-spatial meanings of prepositions, demonstratives, and other function words.
p.larger
| I do this at #[a(href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/", target="_blank") Leiden University]
| and #[a(href="https://www.ru.nl/") Radboud University]
| under the supervision of #[a(href="https://www.rooryck.org/") Johan Rooryck]
| and #[a(href="https://radboud.academia.edu/ellenvanwolde") Ellen van Wolde].
section#publications
h2 Publications
mixin pub(year, title)
p
if attributes.oa
if attributes.doi
- var oaurl = 'https://doi.org/'+attributes.doi
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- throw 'pub: oa set but no doi or url'
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- attributes.authors = 'Staps, Camil'
| !{attributes.authors}, #{year}.
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if attributes.url
a(href!=attributes.url, target='_blank')!= title
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| !{title}
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if attributes.journal
|. !{attributes.prejournal}#[em!=attributes.journal]
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| .
mixin review(year, author, title)
+pub(year, 'Review of: ' + author + ', ' + title)&attributes(attributes)
p I keep track of #[a(href='/publications.html') time from submission to publication].
h4 Refereed articles
table.main_table.publications
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td In preparation
td
+pub('in preparation', 'Complementation and Common Ground: Discursive effects in Biblical Hebrew')(url='https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007711', oa)
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td 2024
td
+pub(2024, 'Semantic properties of prepositions: The distinction between causal <i>min</i> ‘from’ and <i>bə</i> ‘in’')(authors='Staps, Camil & Martijn Beukenhorst', journal='Brill\'s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics', volume=16, doi='10.1163/18776930-01602002', oa)
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td
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+pub(2024, 'Formalizing spatial-causal polysemy of Agent prepositions')(authors='Staps, Camil & Johan Rooryck', journal='Semantics & Pragmatics', volume=17, issue=4, doi='10.3765/sp.17.4', oa)
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td 2023
td
+pub(2023, 'The interpretation of [+distal] in demonstratives and complementizers')(authors='Staps, Camil & Johan Rooryck', journal='Linguistics', volume=61, issue=5, pages='1195-1231', doi='10.1515/ling-2022-0178', oa)
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td 2022
td
+pub(2022, 'Voice, discourse prominence, and aspect: The niphal and passive qal of <em>yālad</em>')(booktitle='Where is the way to the dwelling of light? Studies in Genesis, Job and linguistics in honor of Ellen van Wolde', editors='Pierre Van Hecke & Hanneke van Loon', pages='387-408', address='Leiden', publisher='Brill', doi='10.1163/9789004536296_020')
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+pub(2022, '<em>Lip̄nē</em> ‘in the face of’: A Locative preposition with a threatening connotation')(journal='Journal of Hebrew Scriptures', volume=22, issue=1, pages='1-24', doi='10.5508/jhs29582', oa)
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td 2020
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+pub(2020, '“When dust was poured out”: Creation in Job 38.36–38')(journal='Journal for the Study of the Old Testament', volume=44, issue=3, pages='456-471', doi='10.1177/0309089219862828', oa)
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+pub(2020, 'Prepositions and the grammaticalization of Ancient Hebrew bipartite reciprocal markers')(journal='Journal of Semitic Studies', volume=65, issue=1, pages='61-84', doi='10.1093/jss/fgz050', oa)
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td 2019
td
+pub(2019, 'Lazy interworking of compiled and interpreted code for sandboxing and distributed systems')(authors='Staps, Camil, John van Groningen & Rinus Plasmeijer', booktitle='Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL \'19), September 25–27, 2019, Singapore, Singapore', editors='Jurriën Stutterheim & Wei Ngan Chin', doi='10.1145/3412932.3412941', url='/assets/pdf/ifl2019.pdf', oa)
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td 2018
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+pub(2018, 'A case study of reciprocal middles in Biblical Hebrew: The niphal of לחם')(journal='Orientalia', volume=87, issue=2, pages='159-183', url='http://www.academia.edu/37896637')
h4#book-reviews Book reviews
table.main_table.publications
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td 2021
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+review(2021, 'Peter Bekins', 'Inscriptions from the world of the Bible: A reader and introduction to Old Northwest Semitic')(journal='Bibliotheca Orientalis', volume=78, issue='5/6', pages='723-726')
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td
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+review(2021, 'Margaret Winters', 'Historical linguistics')(journal='LINGUIST List', volume=32, issue=1438, url='https://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1438/', oa)
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td 2020
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+review(2020, 'Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal', 'The NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity')(journal='Bibliotheca Orientalis', volume=77, issue='3/4', pages='318-322', url='https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3142525', oa)
h4 Non-refereed work
table.main_table.publications
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td 2019
td
+pub(2019, 'Tense, aspect and modality in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic')(misc='Leiden University MA. thesis', url='https://hdl.handle.net/1887/77991', oa)
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td
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+pub(2019, 'Lazy interworking of compiled and interpreted code for sandboxing and distributed systems')(misc='Radboud University Nijmegen MSc. thesis', url='https://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/769526/thesis_1.pdf', oa)
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td 2017
td
+pub(2017, 'Code generation for the Thumb-2 instruction set')(misc='Radboud University Nijmegen BSc. thesis', url='https://cs.ru.nl/bachelorscripties/2017/Camil_Staps___4498062___Code-generation-for-the-Thumb-2-instruction-set.pdf', oa)
section#talks
h2 Talks
p.
I keep track of #[a(href='/conferences.html') the conferences I visit and how much CO#[sub 2] I emit in doing so].
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h4 Past
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td 2024
td Feb 2, #[a(href="https://anela.nl/activiteiten/grote-taaldag/", title="Grote Taaldag / Dutch Annual Linguistics Day") Taaldag]
td With Johan Rooryck. The raadselen/#raadsels ‘riddles’ behind Dutch double plurals (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/gtd2024.pdf") slides]).
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td 2023
td Oct 13, #[a(href="https://spe-uca.sciencesconf.org/", title="Semantics and Philosophy in Europe") SPE12/OASIS]
td With Johan Rooryck. Interpreting [+distal] complementizers as markers of Common Ground (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/spe2023.pdf") slides]; #[a(href="/assets/pdf/spe2023-handout.pdf") handout]).
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td 2022
td Dec 9, #[a(href="https://benecla.com/", title="CogLing Days") CogLing Days]
td With Johan Rooryck. Finite complementizers as demonstratives in the clausal domain (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/coglingdays2022.pdf") slides]; #[a(href="/assets/pdf/coglingdays2022-handout.pdf") handout]).
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td
td Nov 21, #[a(href="https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting.aspx", title="Society of Biblical Literature") SBL Annual]
td With Martijn Beukenhorst. Semantic properties of prepositions: the distinction between causal מן and ב (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/sbl2022.pdf") slides]).
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td
td Nov 9, #[a(href="https://bcopley.com/cocoa", title="Converging On Causal Ontology Analyses") COCOA]
td With Johan Rooryck. Space in the causal chain: The perspective from French and Biblical Hebrew (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/cocoa2022.pdf") handout]).
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td
td Aug 25, #[a(href="https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2022/", title="Societas Linguistica Europaea") SLE2022]
td With Johan Rooryck. On the demonstratives nature of finite complementizers (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/sle2022.pdf") slides]; #[a(href="/assets/pdf/sle2022-handout.pdf") handout]).
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td
td Jan 12, #[a(href="https://ail-workshop.github.io/AIL2-Workshop/", title="Agency and Intentions in Language") AIL2]
td With Johan Rooryck. French double Agents: a force-theoretic account of #[em de] and #[em par] (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/ail2022.pdf") handout]).
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td 2020
td Jan 10, #[a(href="https://sites.google.com/view/nl-fp-day-2020/home", title="Dutch Functional Programming Day") NL-FP day]
td With John van Groningen and Rinus Plasmeijer. Lazy interworking of compiled and interpreted code.
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td 2019
td Sep 27, #[a(href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201201105043/http://2019.iflconference.org/", title="Implementation and application of Functional Languages") IFL31]
td By Rinus Plasmeijer, with John van Groningen. Lazy interworking of compiled and interpreted code for sandboxing and distributed systems.
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td 2018
td Jan 26, #[a(href="http://clin28.cls.ru.nl/", title="Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands") CLIN28]
td Combining grammatical features for dating texts in small-corpus languages (#[a(href="http://clin28.cls.ru.nl/#abstract-42") abstract & slides]).
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td
td Jan 5, #[a(href="http://clean.cs.ru.nl/NL-FP_dag_2018", title="Dutch Functional Programming Day") NL-FP day]
td #[a(href="https://cloogle.org") Cloogle]: a programming language search engine and its applications (#[a(href="https://clean.cs.ru.nl/NL-FP_dag_2018#Camil_Staps_-_Cloogle:_a_programming_language_search_engine_and_its_applications") abstract & slides]).
section#projects
h2 Software projects
table.main_table
tr
td: a(href="https://gitlab.com/camilstaps/mbqs") Məḇaqqēš
td A spreadsheet application for scholars of the Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew.
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td: a(href="https://hebrewtools.org") HebrewTools
td Several web applications for Biblical Hebrew education (#[a(href="https://github.com/HebrewTools") GitHub]).
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td: a(href="https://clean-and-itasks.gitlab.io/nitrile") Nitrile
td A package manager for the functional programming language #[a(href="https://clean-lang.org") Clean].
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td: a(href="https://cloogle.org") Cloogle
td A search engine for #[a(href="https://clean-lang.org") Clean] code (#[a(href="https://gitlab.com/cloogle/cloogle-web") GitLab]).
p Find more on #[a(href="https://gitlab.com/camilstaps") GitLab], #[a(href="https://github.com/camilstaps") GitHub], and #[a(href="https://git.camilstaps.nl/") git.camilstaps.nl].
section#teaching
h2 Teaching
table.main_table
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td 2022–2023
td Hebrew I–II, Radboud University Nijmegen (10 ECTS).
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td 2021–2022
td Hebrew I–II, Radboud University Nijmegen (10 ECTS).
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td 2020–2021
td Hebrew II, Radboud University Nijmegen (5 ECTS).
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td
td Hebrew I–III, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (15 ECTS).
tr
td 2015–2019
td.
Student assistant for various courses in computing science, Radboud University Nijmegen.
See under #[a(href='#employment') Employment] for a list of courses.
section#service
h2 Service
table.main_table
tr
td 2024
td Proofreader for #[a(href='https://langsci-press.org/', target='_blank') Language Science Press].
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td
td Reviewer for #[a(href='https://www.glossa-journal.org/', target='_blank') #[i Glossa]].
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td 2023
td Reviewer for #[a(href='https://www.glossa-journal.org/', target='_blank') #[i Glossa]], #[a(href='https://direct.mit.edu/opmi', target='_blank') #[i Open Mind]], and #[a(href='https://www.thenewscholar.nl/', target='_blank') #[i The New Scholar]].
p
| For journal review details, see #[a(href='/publications.html') here].
| For book reviews, see #[a(href='#book-reviews') above].
section#grants
h2 Grants
table.main_table
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td 2019–2024
td #[a(href="https://www.nwo.nl/projecten/pgw19015-0") NWO Promoties in de Geesteswetenschappen], €249K (covering my PhD project; applied for by Holger Gzella; grant no. PGW.19.015).
section#employment
h2 Employment
table.main_table
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td Apr 2024–present
td Compiler engineer, #[a(href="https://tasking.com") TASKING].
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td Sep. 2019–Apr 2024
td
| PhD candidate, Leiden University & Radboud University Nijmegen.
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| Supervised by #[a(href="https://www.rooryck.org/") Johan Rooryck] and #[a(href="https://radboud.academia.edu/ellenvanwolde") Ellen van Wolde].
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td Feb. 2023–Jun. 2023
td Lecturer, Radboud University Nijmegen.
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td Sep. 2019–Aug. 2021
td Scientific programmer / software architect, #[a(href="https://top-software.nl") TOP Software].
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td Feb. 2021–Jul. 2021
td Lecturer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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td Sep. 2015–Aug. 2019
td
details
summary(style='cursor:pointer;') Student assistant, #[a(href="https://www.ru.nl") Radboud University Nijmegen] (click for an overview of activities).
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| #[a(href=guide)= name],
mixin lastSaItem(guide, name)
a(href=guide)= name
p 2018–19: work on the #[a(href="http://clean.cs.ru.nl/Clean") Clean] ecosystem
p
| 2017–18:
+saItem("https://sis.ru.nl/osiris-student/OnderwijsCatalogusSelect.do?selectie=cursus&collegejaar=2017&cursus=NWI-IBC016", "Combinatorics")
+lastSaItem("https://sis.ru.nl/osiris-student/OnderwijsCatalogusSelect.do?selectie=cursus&collegejaar=2017&cursus=NWI-IBC015", "Functional Programming for AI")
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| 2016–17:
+saItem("https://studiegids.science.ru.nl/2016/science/prospectus/inf_ba/course/40559/", "Algorithms and Data Structures")
+saItem("https://studiegids.science.ru.nl/2016/science/course/40511/", "Combinatorics")
+saItem("https://studiegids.science.ru.nl/2016/en/socsci/course/41452/", "Functional Programming for AI")
+saItem("https://www.studiegids.science.ru.nl/2016/science/prospectus/inf_ba/course/40568/", "Functional Programming 1")
+saItem("https://studiegids.science.ru.nl/2016/en/science/course/40564/", "Introduction to Cryptography")
+lastSaItem("https://studiegids.science.ru.nl/2016/science/prospectus/inf_ba/course/40560/", "Operating Systems")
p
| 2015–16:
+saItem("https://cs.ru.nl/~hubbers/courses/co_1516/", "Combinatorics")
+saItem("https://studiegids.science.ru.nl/2015/science/prospectus/inf_ba/course/37072/", "Functional Programming 1")
+saItem("https://studiegids.science.ru.nl/2015/course/37073/", "Functional Programming 2")
+saItem("https://studiegids.science.ru.nl/2015/science/prospectus/inf_ba/course/37067/", "Introduction to Cryptography")
+lastSaItem("https://cs.ru.nl/~hubbers/courses/ms_1516/", "Mathematical Structures")
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td May 2013–Mar. 2019
td Owner of ViviSoft.
section#education
h2 Education
table.main_table
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td 2017–2019
td
| Research MA. #[a(href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/education/study-programmes/master/classics-and-ancient-civilizations-research/hebrew-and-aramaic-studies-research") Hebrew and Aramaic Studies], Leiden University
| (#[abbr(title="A weighted average of more than 8/10 points, and a thesis graded with more than 8/10 points") #[em cum laude]]).
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td 2017–2019
td
| MSc. #[a(href="https://www.ru.nl/english/education/masters/software-science/") Software Science], Radboud University Nijmegen
| (#[abbr(title="A weighted average of more than 9/10 points") #[em summa cum laude]]).
tr
td 2014–2017
td
| BSc. #[a(href="https://www.ru.nl/opleidingen/bachelor/computing-science/") Computing Science], Radboud University Nijmegen
| (#[abbr(title="A weighted average of more than 8/10 points") #[em cum laude]]).
