Camil Staps

Dr. Camil Staps is a Researcher in the research area 'Semantics & Pragmatics' at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS Berlin). His research focuses on how abstract concepts like causation and evidentiality are represented in the mind, particularly studying the relation between spatial and non-spatial meanings of prepositions, demonstratives, and other function words.

His educational background includes a PhD in Linguistics from Leiden University (2024), a Research MA in Hebrew and Aramaic Studies from Leiden University, and an MSc in Software Science from Radboud University Nijmegen. His research interests span computational linguistics, cognitive science, and formal semantics.

Dr. Staps has received significant research funding including an NWO Rubicon Grant (2024-2026) and NWO PhDs in the Humanities Grant (2019-2024). His publications demonstrate a strong focus on formal semantics, Biblical Hebrew linguistics, and computational approaches to language analysis.

He maintains several software projects including Məḇaqqēš (for Biblical Hebrew scholars), HebrewTools (educational tools), and Nitrile (a package manager for Clean programming language).