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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]
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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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h1
| Camil Staps 
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section
p.larger#lead
| I am a PhD candidate in linguistics.
| My interests are in semantics and its interfaces with morphosyntax and pragmatics.
p.larger
| 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
else if attributes.url
- var oaurl = attributes.url
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")
if !attributes.authors
- attributes.authors = 'Staps, Camil'
| !{attributes.authors}, #{year}.
|
if attributes.url
a(href!=attributes.url, target='_blank')!= 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
| .
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
tr
td In preparation
td
+pub('in preparation', 'Complementation and Common Ground: Discursive effects in Biblical Hebrew')(url='https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007711', oa)
tr
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)
tr
td
td
+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)
tr
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)
tr
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')
tr
td
td
+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)
tr
td 2020
td
+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
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 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)
tr
td 2018
td
+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
tr
td 2021
td
+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')
tr
td
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
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://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3142525', oa)
h4 Non-refereed work
table.main_table.publications
tr
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)
tr
td
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)
tr
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].
table.main_table.presentations
//tr
// td(colspan=3)
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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") 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") 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") 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") 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") 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") 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") 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") 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") 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") 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") 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.
tr
td: a(href="https://hebrewtools.org") HebrewTools
td Several web applications for Biblical Hebrew education (#[a(href="https://github.com/HebrewTools") 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") Clean].
tr
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
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#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]].
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
tr
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
tr
td Sep. 2019–Apr 2024
td
| PhD candidate, Leiden University & Radboud University Nijmegen.
br
| Supervised by #[a(href="https://www.rooryck.org/") Johan Rooryck] and #[a(href="https://radboud.academia.edu/ellenvanwolde") 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") 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") Radboud University Nijmegen] (click for an overview of activities).
mixin saItem(guide, name)
| #[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")
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 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]]).
tr
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]]).
|
