Douglas Q. Adams

American professor of English
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IntroAmerican professor of English
A.K.A.Douglas Quentin Adams
A.K.A.Douglas Quentin Adams
PlacesUnited States of America
isLinguist Educator
Work fieldAcademia Literature Social science
Gender
Male
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Biography

Douglas Quentin Adams is a professor of English at the University of Idaho and an Indo-European comparativist. Adams studied at the University of Chicago, taking his PhD in 1972. He is an expert on Tocharian and a contributor on this subject to the Encyclopædia Britannica.
He has also co-authored two works on Indo-European culture and languages with J. P. Mallory of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a Linguistics Editor at the Journal of Indo-European Studies, founded by Roger Pearson.
At the University of Idaho, Adams teaches courses on linguistics, and grammar and semantics for the English as a Second Language program.

Works

  • Adams, Douglas Q. (1987). Essential modern Greek grammar. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-25133-0. 
  • Adams, Douglas (1988). Tocharian historical phonology and morphology. New Haven, Conn: American Oriental Society. ISBN 0-940490-71-4. 
  • Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN 1-884964-98-2. 
  • Hamp, Eric P.; Adams, Douglas (1997). Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp. Washington, D.C: Institute for the Study of Man. ISBN 0-941694-57-7. 
  • Adams, Douglas (1999). A dictionary of Tocharian B. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers. p. 830. ISBN 90-420-0435-5. 
  • Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006). The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. USA: Oxford University Press. p. 760. ISBN 0-19-929668-5. 

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