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I am an Associate Professor and the Director of Linguistics at , where I also direct the . I received my PhD in Linguistics from in August 2016. I also direct The Center for Educational Technologies to Assist Refugee Learners (CETARL) at 麻豆传媒映画出品 state, and I am an Associate Editor of the .
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Education:
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2016)
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M.A. in Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2012)
- MPhil in English (Linguistics), The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad,
India (2008)
- M.A in Linguistics, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India (2006)
- B.A in Communicative English, Mahatma Gandhi University, India (2004)
Research Interests:
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Cognitive Processing
- Psycholinguistics
- Language documentation and revitalization
- Indigeneous and Minority languages
- Accessible educational technologies
- Refugee and migration studies
- Misinformation spread on the web
- Cybersecurity and socially engineered attacks
- Issues at the interface of Syntax and Semantics
- Expression of degree modification, predication, and comparison
- Adjectival structure and meaning
- Argument ellipsis
- Plurals and the mass/count distinction
- Focus markers
- Cognitive processing
- Language and music
- Language in visual narrative
- Artificial language learning
- Indigenous and Minority Language documentation and revitalization
- Potawatomi
- Judeo-Malayalam
- Swahili spoken by the Congolese refugee community
Instructor for LING 668- Field Methods of Linguistics
Spring 2020
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Instructor for LING 665- History of the English Language
Spring 2018
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Instructor for LING 152- The Language of Food
Fall 2017
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Instructor for LING 315- History and Structure of English
Fall 2016, Spring 2017
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Instructor for LING 317- Introduction to Linguistics
Fall 2016, 2017, 2018; Spring 2017, 2018
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Instructor for LING 151- The Nature of Language
Spring 2017, 2018
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Teaching assistant for LING 115- Language, Culture, and Society
Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014
University of Southern California
Teaching assistant for LING 110- In a Word
Spring 2012
University of Southern California
Co-instructor with Professor Hemalatha Nagarajan, Fall 2009
The English and Foreign Languages University
Course: History and Structure of English (Integrated M.A course)
Teaching Assistant, 2006 - 2008
The English and Foreign Languages University
Courses: Basic Issues in Semantics (for Hany Babu M.T), Introduction to Linguistics (Graduate courses)
Co-Instructor with Professor P.Madhavan, Fall 2008
The English and Foreign Languages University
Course: Basic Issues in Semantics (Graduate course)
Tutor, 2007-2008
The English and Foreign Languages University
Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching English
Instructor, May-June 2007
Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL)
Introduction to Syntax
1. Garc铆a-Pardo, Alfredo and Mythili Menon. 2020. The Aspectual Structure of the Adjective: Spanish Ser and Estar. In, Alfonso Morales-Front, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P Leow, and Cristina Sanz (eds.) Hispanic Linguistics: Current Issues and New Directions. Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 26, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2.Menon, Mythili and Roumyana Pancheva. 2019. Degree Achievements of Color. In, M贸nica Cabrera and Jos茅 Camacho (eds.) Exploring Interfaces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 85-108.
3. Sleiman, Jamillah and Mythili Menon. (2019). The Changing of Arabic Terminology in Times of War and Displacement. In Temkin Martinez et al. eds, WECOL Proceedings.
4. Menon, Mythili and Rachel Showstack. (2019). Measure Phrases in Spanish Second Language Learners and Heritage Speakers. In Temkin Martinez et al. eds, WECOL Proceedings.
5. Menon, Mythili. 2018. Domain General Representations shared across Music and Language. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 23 (2), 64-86.
6. Menon, Mythili. 2017. Building Superlatives from Property Concepts. In, Proceedings of Linguistics Society of America 2, 34:1-9.
7. Menon, Mythili. 2017. The Standard Marker in Malayalam encodes Comparative Semantics. InProceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Aaron Kaplan et al., 379-386. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
8. Menon, Mythili. 2016. Reevaluating Standard Analyses of Comparison: The View from Malayalam. In M. Menon and S. Saurov (eds.) Proceedings of FASAL 6.
9. Menon, Mythili,and Roumyana Pancheva. 2016. Decomposing color expressions in Malayalam. In S. Sundaresan and R. Balusu eds.Proceedings of FASAL V, pp. 3-20.
10. Wang, Felix Hao, Mythili Menon, Elsi Kaiser. 2015. Statistical Structures in Artificial languages Prime Relative Clause Attachment Biases in English. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.),Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
11. Menon, Mythili, Roumyana Pancheva. 2014. The grammatical life of property concept roots in Malayalam. In U. Etxeberria, A. F膬l膬u葯, A. Irurtzun, B. Leferman eds., Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2013, pp. 289-302.
12. Menon, Mythili. 2014. Property Concepts and the Apparent Lack of Adjectives in Dravidian. In, Pritha Chandra and Richa Srishti (eds.) The Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian Languages. pp 25-52.
13. Simpson, Andrew, Arunima Choudhury, Mythili Menon. 2013. The derivation and licensing of covert nominals in Bangla, Hindi, and Malayalam. Lingua 134, 103-128.
14. Menon, Mythili. 2013. The Apparent Lack of Adjectives in Malayalam and other Related Languages. In Nobu Goto, Koichi Otaki, Atsushi Sato, Kensuke Takita eds. Proceedings of Glow-in-Asia IX 2012: The Main Session. Mie University, Japan, pp. 157-171.
15. Menon, Mythili. 2012. Adverbial Comparatives: Evidence from Malayalam. In: Ana Aguilar, Anna Chernilovskaya & Rick Nouwen (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16 vol 2. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, pp. 461-474.
16. Simpson, Andrew, 鈭Arunima Choudhury, 鈭Mythili Menon. 2012. South Asian Perspectives on Argument Ellipsis. In, Bum-Sik Park eds. Three factors and Syntactic Theory. Proceedings of the 14th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, pp. 370-389.
17. Menon, Mythili and Syed Saurov. 2016. Proceedings of the Sixth Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL 6). Online at Journal of South Asian Languages.
18. Mohanty, Rajat Kumar and Mythili Menon. 2009. Universals and Variation. Proceedings of the Seventh GLOW-in Asia. The English and Foreign Languages Press, EFLU, Hyderabad.
19. Menon, Mythili. 2018. Absence. Mikrokosmos Literary Journal.
2010- present Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
2013- present Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC)
2013-present Women in Cognitive Science (WiCS)
2014- present Cognitive Science Society (CSS)
2024 President's Distinguished Service Award
2023 Young Faculty Scholar Award
2021 Young Faculty Risk Taker Award
2021 United Way of the Plains Impact on the Plains Game Changer Award in Education
2021-2022 Recruitment Faculty Fellow
2020-2021 Cohen Honors College Faculty Fellow
2019-2020 Service Learning Faculty Fellow Scholar
2018-2019 Tilford Fellow
Summer 2024, A Resource for English Language Learners in First-Year Mathematics courses, Multidisciplinary Research Project Grant (MURPA), 麻豆传媒映画出品 (w/Robert Fraser), $7,500, Co-PI
July 2022-2024 Studying Socially Engineered Attacks Among Refugee Learners, $296, 467, PI, The National Science Foundation
August 2020 Creating Educational Technologies for Refugee Learners, $300,000, PI
Summer 2019 Award for Research/Creative Projects in Summer (ARCS), 麻豆传媒映画出品 $4,000 (for fieldwork in Cochin, India), PI, Documenting the language and culture of Jewish People of Cochin
Jan 01, 2018- Multidisciplinary Research Project Grant (MURPA), 麻豆传媒映画出品 June 15, 2018 Investigating Spread of Misinformation on the Web by Analyzing Online Sharing Behavior, (w/Murtuza Jadliwala, Dept. of EECS, University of Texas-San Antonio), $7,500, PI
Dec 01 2016- University Research/Creative Projects Award (URCA), 麻豆传媒映画出品
Dec 31 2017 Documenting Indigenous Food and Language of Potawatomi Indians in Kansas, $4,500
Summer 2013 University of Southern California Del Amo Fellowship, Language and Music research in Madrid, Spain, $4,000
2008-2011 University Grants Commission, India, Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), $10,000
2005-2008 University Grants Commission, India, Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), $8,000
2016- present Language and Linguistics Colloquium Series Organizer (Along with Rachel Showstack), WSU
2017-present Faculty Sponsor and founder, WichiLing, Linguistics Club and Registered Student Organization, WSU
2017-present Founder and organizer of FoodLang Brown Bag Lunch Reading Group
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