Camil Staps

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2019–2024

Camil Staps wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2019–2024.

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Papers

Large Language Models and Biblical Hebrew: Limitations, pitfalls, opportunities (2024)
A critical reply to Elrod (2023; card hbo-2023-elrod-nothing-new-under-sun-study). Staps argues that Elrod's GPT results should be read far less favourably, because of interference on two levels: from modern languages (English, Modern Hebrew) in any Hebrew the model writes, and from translations and commentaries in…
Lip̄nē 'in the face of': A Locative Preposition with a Threatening Connotation (2022)
The complex preposition לִפְנֵי (lə + construct of פָּנִים "face") marks the third argument of נגף "defeat" ("Israel was defeated lip̄nē the Philistines", 1 Sam 4:2).
Prepositions and the Grammaticalization of Ancient Hebrew Bipartite Reciprocal Markers (2019)
The full text is not in the library; this card rests on the publisher's abstract, so the ideas are provisional.