Douglas Q. Adams

This article is about the Indo-Europeanist. For the humorist, see Douglas Adams.

Douglas Q. 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, which Mallory founded.^[1]

At the University of Idaho, Adams teaches courses on linguistics, and grammar and semantics for the English as a Second Language program.^[2]

Works

• Adams, Douglas; Adam, 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 1884964982 
• 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. pp. 830. ISBN 90-420-0435-5. http://books.google.com/books/about/A_dictionary_of_Tocharian_B.html?id=8sycj-dozxAC. 
• Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006). The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. USA: Oxford University Press. pp. 760. ISBN 0199296682. http://books.google.com/?id=yfZZX1qjpvkC&printsec=frontcover&q= 

References

1. ^ "Journal of Indo-European Studies". http://www.jies.org/. Retrieved 2009-05-28. 
2. ^ "The University of Idaho Argonaut - UI professor goes international". http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/2209/89/. 

External links

• Personal webpage at the University of Idaho English Department

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