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Ellen M. Kaisse | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Thesis | Hiatus in Modern Greek (1977) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Phonology |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
Ellen M. Kaisse (born 1949) is an American linguist. She isprofessor emerita of linguistics at theUniversity of Washington, best known for her research on the interface betweenphonology,syntax, andmorphology.
Kaisse earned her PhD in linguistics in 1977 fromHarvard University, with a dissertation entitledHiatus in Modern Greek.[1] In 1976 she took up a position at theUniversity of Washington, where she stayed for 40 years, until her retirement.[2]
Over the course of her career, she worked on a wide range of issues in theoreticalphonology and particularly on the phonology ofModern Greek, (Argentinian)Spanish andTurkish. She has published on topics ranging from lexical phonology to the phonology-syntax interface tovowel harmony to featural phonology.[3]
Kaisse served aspresident of the Linguistic Society of America from January 6, 2013–January 5, 2014.[4] She was inducted as aFellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2015.[5]
Kaisse has co-edited the journalPhonology (Cambridge University Press) withColin Ewen (Leiden University) since 1988.[6]
