extends /layout.pug block extra_head meta(name='description', content='PhD candidate in linguistics, representation of agency in language using spatial relations. I do theoretical research and apply it to Biblical Hebrew.') block titleContainer block append js script(src='/assets/js/bootstrap.min.js') script new bootstrap.ScrollSpy(document.body, {target: '#sticky-nav'}); block content #sticky-nav ul.nav.flex-column.nav-pills li.nav-item(role='presentation') #[a.nav-link(href='#introduction') Introduction] li.nav-item(role='presentation') #[a.nav-link(href='#publications') Publications] li.nav-item(role='presentation') #[a.nav-link(href='#talks') Talks] li.nav-item(role='presentation') #[a.nav-link(href='#service') Service] li.nav-item(role='presentation') #[a.nav-link(href='#statistics') Statistics] li.nav-item(role='presentation') #[a.nav-link(href='#projects') Software projects] li.nav-item(role='presentation') #[a.nav-link(href='#teaching') Teaching] li.nav-item(role='presentation') #[a.nav-link(href='#grants') Grants] li.nav-item(role='presentation') #[a.nav-link(href='#employment') Employment] li.nav-item(role='presentation') #[a.nav-link(href='#education') Education] .container#content header#introduction div(style="display:table-row;") img#profile(alt="Camil Staps", style="vertical-align:bottom;", src="/assets/img/profile.jpg", width="170") div#basicinfo(style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:bottom;") h1 | Camil Staps  small.nowrap [kaˈmil stɑps] small   small.nowrap he/his p span.tt.obfuscate | info@c span dummy | amilst span dummy | aps.nl p(style="margin-bottom:1em;") a(href="https://leidenuni.academia.edu/CamilStaps") i.ai.ai-lg.ai-academia(title="Academia.edu") |   a(href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1164-6838") i.ai.ai-lg.ai-orcid(title="ORCiD") |   a(href="https://mstdn.social/@CamilStaps", rel="me") i.fab.fa-lg.fa-mastodon(title="Mastodon") |   a(href="https://gitlab.com/camilstaps") i.fab.fa-lg.fa-gitlab(title="GitLab") |   a(href="https://github.com/camilstaps") i.fab.fa-lg.fa-github(title="GitHub") |   a(href="https://nl.linkedin.com/in/camilstaps") i.fab.fa-lg.fa-linkedin(title="LinkedIn") section p.larger#lead | I am a linguist, broadly interested in what language can tell us about human cognition. | I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the #[a(href="https://leibniz-zas.de", target="_blank") Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft]. p.larger | The Bigger Question I aim to address is 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. | I defended my #[a(href='#publications') doctoral dissertation] in June 2024. section#publications h2 Publications mixin pub(year, title) td.icon if attributes.type if attributes.type == 'phd-thesis' i.fa.fa-graduation-cap(title="PhD thesis") else if attributes.type == 'master-thesis' i.fa.fa-graduation-cap(title="Master thesis") else if attributes.type == 'bachelor-thesis' i.fa.fa-graduation-cap(title="Bachelor thesis") else if attributes.type == 'review' i.far.fa-comment(title="Book review") else if attributes.type == 'chapter' i.fa.fa-book-open(title="Book chapter") else - throw 'pub: unknown type' else i.far.fa-file-lines(title="Journal article") td.icon if attributes.oa if attributes.url - var oaurl = attributes.url else if attributes.doi - var oaurl = 'https://doi.org/'+attributes.doi else - throw 'pub: oa set but no doi or url' a.oa(href!=oaurl, target='_blank') i.ai.ai-lg.ai-open-access(title="Open Access") td p if !attributes.authors - attributes.authors = 'Staps, Camil' | !{attributes.authors}. #{year}. | if attributes.url a(href!=attributes.url, target='_blank')!= title else if attributes.publisher && !attributes.pages i!= title else | !{title} | if attributes.journal |. !{attributes.prejournal}#[em!=attributes.journal] if attributes.volume | #{attributes.volume} if attributes.issue | (#{attributes.issue}) else if attributes.booktitle | . In !{attributes.editors} (eds.), #[em!=attributes.booktitle] else if attributes.misc | . #{attributes.misc} if attributes.pages - attributes.pages = attributes.pages.replace('-', '–') if attributes.journal | :!{attributes.pages} else | , !{attributes.pages} | . if attributes.address | #{attributes.address}: if attributes.publisher | #{attributes.publisher}. if attributes.doi | #[span.sc doi]: - var doiurl = 'https://doi.org/'+attributes.doi a(href!=doiurl, target='_blank')!= attributes.doi | . if attributes.errata | (There are #[a(href!=attributes.errata) errata].) mixin review(year, author, title) +pub(year, 'Review of: ' + author + ', ' + title)&attributes(attributes) table.main_table.publications tr td In preparation +pub('In preparation', 'Iconic features in nominal reduplication') tr td +pub('In preparation', 'Complementation and Common Ground: Discursive effects in Biblical Hebrew')(url='https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007711', oa) tr td 2024 +pub(2024, 'The persistence of space: Formalizing the polysemy of spatial relations in functional elements')(misc='Leiden University dissertation', address='Amsterdam', publisher='LOT', doi='10.48273/LOT0673', oa, errata='/dissertation-errata.html', type='phd-thesis') tr td +pub(2024, 'Large Language Models and Biblical Hebrew: Limitations, pitfalls, opportunities')(journal='HIPHIL Novum', volume=9, issue=1, pages='46-55', doi='10.7146/hn.v9i1.144177', oa) tr td +pub(2024, 'Semantic properties of prepositions: The distinction between causal min ‘from’ and bə ‘in’')(authors='Staps, Camil & Martijn Beukenhorst', journal='Brill\'s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics', volume=16, issue=2, pages='217-250', doi='10.1163/18776930-01602002', oa) tr td +pub(2024, 'Formalizing spatial-causal polysemy of Agent prepositions')(authors='Staps, Camil & Johan Rooryck', journal='Semantics & Pragmatics', volume=17, issue=4, pages='1-47', doi='10.3765/sp.17.4', oa) tr td 2023 +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) tr td 2022 +pub(2022, 'Voice, discourse prominence, and aspect: The niphal and passive qal of yālad')(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', url='https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3641662', oa, type='chapter') tr td +pub(2022, 'Lip̄nē ‘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) tr td 2021 +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', url='https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3641664', oa, type='review') tr td +review(2021, 'Margaret Winters', 'Historical linguistics')(journal='LINGUIST List', volume=32, issue=1438, url='https://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1438/', oa, type='review') tr td 2020 +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) tr td +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) tr td +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://hdl.handle.net/1887/3142525', oa, type='review') tr td 2019 +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', oa, type='chapter') tr td +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, type='master-thesis') tr td +pub(2019, 'Tense, aspect and modality in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic')(misc='Leiden University MA. thesis', url='https://hdl.handle.net/1887/77991', oa, type='master-thesis') tr td 2018 +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') tr td 2017 +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, type='bachelor-thesis') section#talks h2 Talks table.main_table.presentations tr td(colspan=3) h4 Upcoming tr td 2025 td Jan 31, #[a(href="https://anela.nl/activiteiten/grote-taaldag/", title="Grote Taaldag / Dutch Annual Linguistics Day", target="_blank") Taaldag] td Iconic features in nominal reduplication. tr td td Feb 9, #[a(href="https://ianjoo.github.io/icosem/3.html", title="Iconicity Seminar", target="_blank") IcoSem3] td Iconic features in nominal reduplication (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/icosem2025-abstract.pdf") abstract]). tr td(colspan=3) h4 Past tr td 2024 td Feb 2, #[a(href="https://anela.nl/activiteiten/grote-taaldag/", title="Grote Taaldag / Dutch Annual Linguistics Day", target="_blank") Taaldag] td With Johan Rooryck. The raadselen/#raadsels ‘riddles’ behind Dutch double plurals (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/gtd2024.pdf") slides]). tr td 2023 td Oct 13, #[a(href="https://spe-uca.sciencesconf.org/", title="Semantics and Philosophy in Europe", target="_blank") 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]). tr td 2022 td Dec 9, #[a(href="https://benecla.com/", title="CogLing Days", target="_blank") 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]). tr td td Nov 21, #[a(href="https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting.aspx", title="Society of Biblical Literature", target="_blank") SBL Annual] td With Martijn Beukenhorst. Semantic properties of prepositions: the distinction between causal מן and ב (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/sbl2022.pdf") slides]). tr td td Nov 9, #[a(href="https://bcopley.com/cocoa", title="Converging On Causal Ontology Analyses", target="_blank") COCOA] td With Johan Rooryck. Space in the causal chain: The perspective from French and Biblical Hebrew (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/cocoa2022.pdf") handout]). tr td td Aug 25, #[a(href="https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2022/", title="Societas Linguistica Europaea", target="_blank") 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]). tr td td Jan 12, #[a(href="https://ail-workshop.github.io/AIL2-Workshop/", title="Agency and Intentions in Language", target="_blank") 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]). tr td 2020 td Jan 10, #[a(href="https://sites.google.com/view/nl-fp-day-2020/home", title="Dutch Functional Programming Day", target="_blank") NL-FP day] td With John van Groningen and Rinus Plasmeijer. Lazy interworking of compiled and interpreted code. tr td 2019 td Sep 27, #[a(href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201201105043/http://2019.iflconference.org/", title="Implementation and application of Functional Languages", target="_blank") IFL31] td By Rinus Plasmeijer, with John van Groningen. Lazy interworking of compiled and interpreted code for sandboxing and distributed systems. tr td 2018 td Jan 26, #[a(href="http://clin28.cls.ru.nl/", title="Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands", target="_blank") CLIN28] td Combining grammatical features for dating texts in small-corpus languages (#[a(href="http://clin28.cls.ru.nl/#abstract-42") abstract & slides]). tr td td Jan 5, #[a(href="http://clean.cs.ru.nl/NL-FP_dag_2018", title="Dutch Functional Programming Day", target="_blank") NL-FP day] td #[a(href="https://cloogle.org", target="_blank") 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", target="_blank") abstract & slides]). section#service h2 Service table.main_table tr td 2024 td Proofreader for #[a(href='https://langsci-press.org/', target='_blank') Language Science Press]. tr td td Reviewer for #[a(href='https://www.glossa-journal.org/', target='_blank') #[i Glossa]]. tr 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]]. section#statistics h2 Statistics p. I keep track of #[a(href='/publications.html') time from submission to publication] for my writings, as well as #[a(href='/conferences.html') the conferences I visit and how much CO#[sub 2] I emit in doing so]. 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. tr td: a(href="https://hebrewtools.org") HebrewTools td Several web applications for Biblical Hebrew education (#[a(href="https://github.com/HebrewTools", target="_blank") GitHub]). tr 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", target="_blank") Clean]. tr td: a(href="https://cloogle.org") Cloogle td A search engine for #[a(href="https://clean-lang.org", target="_blank") Clean] code (#[a(href="https://gitlab.com/cloogle/cloogle-web", target="_blank") GitLab]). p Find more on #[a(href="https://gitlab.com/camilstaps", target="_blank") GitLab], #[a(href="https://github.com/camilstaps", target="_blank") GitHub], and #[a(href="https://git.camilstaps.nl/", target="_blank") git.camilstaps.nl]. section#teaching h2 Teaching table.main_table tr td 2022–2023 td Hebrew I–II, Radboud University Nijmegen (10 ECTS). tr td 2021–2022 td Hebrew I–II, Radboud University Nijmegen (10 ECTS). tr td 2020–2021 td Hebrew II, Radboud University Nijmegen (5 ECTS). tr 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#grants h2 Grants table.main_table tr td 2024–2026 td #[a(href="https://www.nwo.nl/en/researchprogrammes/rubicon/awarded-grants/awarded-rubicon-grants-2023", target="_blank") NWO Rubicon], €144K (for two years post-doctoral research at ZAS Berlin; grant no. 019.233SG.004). tr td 2019–2024 td #[a(href="https://www.nwo.nl/projecten/pgw19015-0", target="_blank") NWO PhDs in the Humanities], €249K (applied for by Holger Gzella; grant no. PGW.19.015). section#employment h2 Employment table.main_table tr td Sep 2024–present td Researcher, #[a(href="https://leibniz-zas.de", target="_blank") Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft]. tr td Apr 2024–Aug 2024 td Compiler engineer, #[a(href="https://tasking.com", target="_blank") TASKING]. tr td Sep 2019–Apr 2024 td | PhD candidate, Leiden University & Radboud University Nijmegen. br | Supervised by #[a(href="https://www.rooryck.org/", target="_blank") Johan Rooryck] and #[a(href="https://radboud.academia.edu/ellenvanwolde", target="_blank") Ellen van Wolde]. tr td Feb 2023–Jun 2023 td Lecturer, Radboud University Nijmegen. tr td Sep 2019–Aug 2021 td Scientific programmer / software architect, #[a(href="https://top-software.nl", target="_blank") TOP Software]. tr td Feb 2021–Jul 2021 td Lecturer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. tr td Sep 2015–Aug 2019 td details summary(style='cursor:pointer;') Student assistant, #[a(href="https://www.ru.nl", target="_blank") Radboud University Nijmegen] (click for an overview of activities). mixin saItem(guide, name) | #[a(href=guide, target="_blank")= name], mixin lastSaItem(guide, name) a(href=guide)= name p 2018–19: work on the #[a(href="http://clean.cs.ru.nl/Clean", target="_blank") 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") p | 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") tr td May 2013–Mar. 2019 td Owner of ViviSoft. section#education h2 Education table.main_table tr td 2019–2024 td | PhD. in Linguistics, Leiden University (#[abbr(title="Awarded to ±10% of doctors according to the judgment of the opposition committee") #[em cum laude]]). tr td 2017–2019 td | Research MA. in #[a(href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/education/study-programmes/master/classics-and-ancient-civilizations-research/hebrew-and-aramaic-studies-research", target="_blank") 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]]). tr td 2017–2019 td | MSc. in #[a(href="https://www.ru.nl/english/education/masters/software-science/", target="_blank") 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. in #[a(href="https://www.ru.nl/opleidingen/bachelor/computing-science/", target="_blank") Computing Science], Radboud University Nijmegen | (#[abbr(title="A weighted average of more than 8/10 points") #[em cum laude]]).