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.[1]

Kaisse earned her PhD in Linguistics in 1977 from Harvard, with a dissertation entitled, Hiatus in Modern Greek.[2] 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, and has published on topics ranging from lexical phonology to the phonology-syntax interface to vowel harmony to featural phonology.[3]

Kaisse served as President of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) from January 6, 2013 – January 5, 2014.[4] She was inducted as an LSA Fellow in 2015.[5]

Kaisse has co-edited the journal Phonology (Cambridge University Press) with Colin Ewen (Leiden University, The Netherlands) since 1988.[6]

Key publications
  • Harris, James W. and Ellen M. Kaisse. 1999. Palatal vowels, glides and obstruents in Argentinian Spanish, Phonology 16, 117-190.
  • Kaisse, Ellen M. 1985. Connected speech: the interaction of syntax and phonology. Academic Press.
  • Kaisse, Ellen M. and Arnold Zwicky (eds.). 1987. Phonology Yearbook 4: Syntactic conditions on phonological rules.
  • Kaisse, Ellen M.1990. Toward a typology of postlexical rules. S. Inkelas and D. Zec, eds., The syntax-phonology connection. CSLI Publications, 123-138.
  • Kaisse, Ellen M. 1992. Can [consonantal] spread? Language 68, 313-332.
  • Kaisse, Ellen M. 1993. Rule generalization and rule reordering in Lexical Phonology: a reconsideration, In S. Hargus and E. Kaisse, eds., Studies in Lexical Phonology. Academic Press, 343-363.
  • Kaisse, Ellen M. and April McMahon. 2011. Lexical phonology and the lexical syndrome. In M. van Oostendorp et al., eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to phonology, ch. 94.
  • Kaisse, Ellen M. 2011. The stricture features. In M. van Oostendorp et al., eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to phonology, ch. 13.

References
  1. "Ellen Kaisse 40th anniversary U of Washington". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  2. "1970s". Retrieved 2017-08-11.
  3. "ellen kaisse - Google Scholar". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
  4. "Presidents | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
  5. "LSA Fellows By Name | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
  6. "Phonology | Cambridge Core". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
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