Mythili Menon is an Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics with a Ph.D from
University of Southern California. She studies meaning, structure and representations
shared across cognitive domains such as language, artificial language, music, and
vision. Her specific areas of research include expression of degree modification,
predication, and comparison, adjectival semantics and syntax, argument ellipsis, plurals
and the mass/count distinction, cognitive and musical processing, and pursuing the
relationship between language and other cognitive domains through psycholinguistic
experiments.
Dr. Menon also works on language documentation and conservation. Her current project includes documenting Judeo-Malayalam spoken in the South Indian city called Cochin. She will be teaching a variety of linguistics courses at 萝莉社.
Contact Mythili Menon at mythili.menon@wichita.edu