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| 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.
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| I decided to leave academia in 2026, but may still write something every now and then.
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h2 Publications
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td In preparation
+pub('In preparation', 'Complementation and Common Ground: Discursive effects in Biblical Hebrew')(lingbuzz='007711')
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+pub('In preparation', 'Overlap and countability')(authors='Rooryck, Johan & Camil Staps', lingbuzz='009490')
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td 2026
+review(2024, 'Grace J. Park', 'Focus Construction with <i>kî ̓im</i> in Biblical Hebrew')(journal='Bibliotheca Orientalis', volume=81, issue='5/6', pages='510-515', url='assets/pdf/bior2026.pdf')
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td 2025
+pub(2025, 'Iconic features in nominal reduplication')(journal='Linguistic Typology', doi='10.1515/lingty-2024-0042', oa)
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+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)
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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')
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+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)
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+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, issue=2, pages='217-250', doi='10.1163/18776930-01602002', oa)
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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, pages='1-47', doi='10.3765/sp.17.4', oa)
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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)
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td 2022
+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', url='https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3641662', oa, type='chapter')
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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 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)
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td
+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
+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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+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)
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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')
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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')
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h2 Statistics
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#[a(href='/publications.html') Paper processing time by venue].
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h2 Software projects
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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", target="_blank") GitHub]).
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h2 Talks
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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]).
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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]).
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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]).
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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]).
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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]).
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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]).
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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]).
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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]).
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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]).
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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]).
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h2 Service & outreach
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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].
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td Problem and presentation for the #[a(href='https://linguistikolympiade.de/', target='_blank') Deutsche Linguistik-Olympiade].
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td 2024–2025
td Proofreader for #[a(href='https://langsci-press.org/', target='_blank') Language Science Press].
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td 2024
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]].
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h2 Teaching
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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 Hebrew I–III, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (15 ECTS).
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td 2015–2019
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Student assistant for various courses in computing science, Radboud University Nijmegen.
See under #[a(href='#employment') Employment] for a list of courses.
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