extends /layout-main.pug block set_page - let page = 'linguistics.html' block page .container section p | As a theoretical linguist, I am broadly interested in what language can tell us about human cognition. | In particular, I study the interaction between the representations of concrete and abstract concepts in the mind. | My earlier work also deals with Biblical Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible. div.alert.alert-light | I decided to leave academia in 2026, but may still write something every now and then. section h2 Publications table.main_table.publications tr td In preparation +pub('In preparation', 'Complementation and Common Ground: Discursive effects in Biblical Hebrew')(lingbuzz='007711') tr td +pub('In preparation', 'Overlap and countability')(authors='Rooryck, Johan & Camil Staps', lingbuzz='009490') tr td 2026 +review(2024, 'Grace J. Park', 'Focus Construction with kî ̓im in Biblical Hebrew')(journal='Bibliotheca Orientalis', volume=81, issue='5/6', pages='510-515', url='assets/pdf/bior2026.pdf') tr td 2025 +pub(2025, 'Iconic features in nominal reduplication')(journal='Linguistic Typology', doi='10.1515/lingty-2024-0042', oa) tr td +review(2025, 'Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald', 'A guide to gender and classifiers')(journal='LINGUIST List', volume=36, issue=3268, url='https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3268/', 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) tr td +review(2021, 'Margaret Winters', 'Historical linguistics')(journal='LINGUIST List', volume=32, issue=1438, url='https://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1438/', oa) 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) tr td 2019 +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') section h2 Statistics p. #[a(href='/publications.html') Paper processing time by venue]. section h2 Software projects table.main_table 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]). section h2 Talks table.main_table.presentations //tr // td(colspan=3) // h4 Upcoming //tr // td(colspan=3) // h4 Past tr td 2025 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]; #[a(href="/assets/pdf/icosem2025-slides.pdf") slides]). tr td 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 (#[a(href="/assets/pdf/gtd2025.pdf") slides]). 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 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]). section h2 Service & outreach table.main_table tr td 2025 td Reviewer for #[a(href='https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions', target='_blank') #[i Religions]], #[a(href='https://dgfs.de/en/content/events/annual-conferences', target='_blank') DGfS 2026]. tr td td Problem and presentation for the #[a(href='https://linguistikolympiade.de/', target='_blank') Deutsche Linguistik-Olympiade]. tr td 2024–2025 td Proofreader for #[a(href='https://langsci-press.org/', target='_blank') Language Science Press]. tr td 2024 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 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.