Ellen Kaisse

Ellen M. Kaisse is an American linguist. She is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Washington (USA), where she has been affiliated since 1976.
Career.
Kaisse earned her PhD in Linguistics in 1977 from Harvard, with a dissertation entitled, "Hiatus in Modern Greek". Since then, she has worked on a wide range of issues in theoretical phonology, and particularly on the phonology of Modern Greek, (Argentinian) Spanish and Turkish. She has published on topics ranging from lexical phonology to the phonology-syntax interface to vowel harmony to featural phonology.
Honors and distinctions.
Kaisse served as President of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) from January 6, 2013 – January 5, 2014. She was inducted as an LSA Fellow in 2015.
Kaisse has co-edited the journal "Phonology" (Cambridge University Press) with Colin Ewen (Leiden University, The Netherlands) since 1988.