She is professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Washington, best known for her research on the interface between phonology, syntax, and morphology.
Kaisse earned her PhD in linguistics in 1977 from Harvard University, with a dissertation entitled Hiatus in Modern Greek.
[1] In 1976 she took up a position at the University 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 theoretical phonology and particularly on the phonology of Modern Greek, (Argentinian) Spanish and Turkish.
[3] Kaisse served as president of the Linguistic Society of America from January 6, 2013–January 5, 2014.