Rick Floyd, Ph.D.

Senior Translation Consultant

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, 1993
  • M.A., Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington, 1978
  • B.F.A., Fine Arts/Spanish, University of North Texas, 1975

Current positions

  • Certified Senior Translation Consultant, SIL International, 2012–2016, 2017–2021, 2022–
  • Translation Consultant, Americas Area South, 2017–
  • Associate Team Leader, Americas Area South, 2017–

Other professional experience and service

  • Director, SIL at Biola, Biola University, 2012–2021
  • Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Biola University, 2003–2021
  • Adjunct Faculty, SIL at Biola, Biola University, 2003–2021
  • SIL International Board of Directors, 2008–2012
  • Course Head, Introduction to Language and Linguistics, School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University, 2008
  • Organizer/Coordinator, Workshop series on Translation Principles and Relevance Theory, Lima, Peru, 2006, 2007, 2008
  • Course Head, Articulatory Phonetics, and Introduction to Language and Linguistics, School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University, 2003–2004, 2008
  • Translation Consultant, SIL Peru Branch, 1993–2007
  • Lecturer, Literary Genres of the New Testament, United Bible Societies, Lima, Peru, 2007
  • Course Head, Articulatory Phonetics course in Spanish for CILTA (Curso Intensivo de Lingüística y Traducción Aplicada), Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru, 2004
  • Seminar Teacher, Wanca Quechua grammar to Wanca Quechua speakers, Sponsored by Wanca Quechua Translation Committee, Huancayo Peru, 2002, 2003
  • Seminar Teacher, Exegesis, Seminario Bíblico Sudamericano, Huancayo, Peru, 2001
  • Course Head, Language Learning, (target language: Tagalog), Asia SIL, Darwin, Australia, 2000
  • Staff Head, Field Methods, Texas SIL, Dallas, Texas, 1998
  • Seminar Organizer/Teacher, Cognitive linguistics as applied to the investigation of the semantics of Quechua morphology, SIL Peru Branch, Lima, Peru, 1997
  • Seminar Teacher, Bible translation and cross-cultural issues, Seminario Bíblico Sudamericano, Huancayo, Peru, 1997
  • Seminar Co-instructor, Relevance Theory as Applied to Discourse, SIL Peru Branch, Huanuco, Peru, 1996
  • Seminar Co-instructor, Principles of Dictionary Making, SIL Peru Branch, Huanuco, Peru, 1996
  • Teaching Assistant, Analysis of Spanish, University of California, San Diego, 1986–1989, 1991–1993
  • Staff Head, Articulatory Phonetics, Oregon SIL, Eugene, Oregon, 1991
  • Teacher, Articulatory Phonetics course in Spanish, University of Lima, Peru, 1990
  • Staff Head, Field Methods, Oregon SIL, Eugene, Oregon, 1987, 1988
  • Seminar Co-instructor, Pragmatics, SIL Peru Branch, Chaclacayo, Peru, 1986
  • Co-instructor, Quechua Orientation Course, SIL Peru Branch, Huánuco, Peru, 1983, 1984
  • Phonetics staff, Dallas SIL, Dallas, Texas, 1979–1980
  • Phonetics staff, Norman SIL, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 1977–1980
  • Teacher, English as a Second Language to Cuban immigrants, Private course, Dallas, Texas, 1971

Professional memberships

  • Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), 1989–
  • International Cognitive Linguistics Association, 1989–

Language proficiencies

  • English (eng): ILR 5
  • Spanish (spa): ILR 4+
  • Huaylla Wanca Quechua (qvw): ILR 3

Research interests

  • Semantics and pragmatics
  • Relevance theory
  • Phonetics
  • Evidentiality
  • Cognitive linguistics
  • Modality
  • Second language acquisition
United States
Publications: 

Selected publications

Hill, Harriet, Ernst-August Gutt, Margaret Hill, Christoph Unger, and Rick Floyd. 2011. Bible translation basics: Communicating Scripture in a relevant way. Dallas: SIL International. https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/42206.

Bickford, Anita C., and Rick Floyd. 2006. Articulatory phonetics: Tools for analyzing the world's languages. Fourth edition. Dallas: SIL International. https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/3618.

Floyd, Rick. 2003. Completion, comas and other “downers”: Observations on the Wanka directional suffix -lpu. In Eugene H. Casad, and Gary B. Palmer (eds.), Cognitive linguistics and non-Indo-European languages, 39–64. Berlin: DeGruyter Mouton. https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/86224.

Floyd, Rick. 1999. The structure of evidential categories in Wanka Quechua. SIL International Publications in Linguistics 131. Dallas: SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington. https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/8496.

Floyd, Rick. 1997. La estructura categorial de los evidenciales en el quechua wanka. Serie Lingüística Peruana 44. Lima: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano and Ministerio de Educación. https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/30189.

Floyd, Rick. 1997. Observations on Wanka Quechua conjecture marking and subjectification. In Marjolijn Verspoor, Kee Dong Lee, and Eve Sweetser (eds.), Lexical and syntactical constructions and the construction of meaning, 129–147. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 150. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Floyd, Rick. 1996. Experience, certainty and control, and the direct evidential in Wanka Quechua questions. Functions of Language 3(1):69–93. https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/29828.

Floyd, Rick. 1996. The radial structure of the Wanka reportative. In Eugene H. Casad (ed.), Cognitive linguistics in the Redwoods: The expansion of a new paradigm in linguistics, 895–941. Cognitive Linguistics Research 6. Berlin: DeGruyter Mouton. https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/29772.

Floyd, Rick. 1994. The reportative as a radial category: A study in prototypes. In Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon, and Mario Daniel Martin (eds.), Language in the Andes, 151–189. Occasional Monographs in Latin American Studies 4. Delaware: University of Delaware Latin American Studies.

Floyd, Rick. 1981. Manual for articulatory phonetics. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/375.

Other

Floyd, Rick. 2010. On the relevance of relevance theory to translation. Paper presented at the Global Linguistics Forum, Vajta, Hungary, August 2010.

Floyd, Rick. 2006. Sobre la traducción y la alfabetización. Paper presented at the Curso Introductorio de la Lingüística y Traducción Aplicada, Lima, Peru, May 2006.

Floyd, Rick. 2003. Aspectos de la dialectología quechua. Paper presented at the Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru, February 2003.

Floyd, Rick. 2003. Principios de diseño para la ortografía. Paper presented at the Universidad Pontífica La Católica, Lima, Peru, February 2003.

Floyd, Rick. 1988. CV, MP and compensatory lengthening. Paper presented at the Andean Linguistics Symposium, International Congress of Americanists, Amsterdam, June 1988.

 

Works by this author in SIL Language & Culture Archives