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{{About|the Indo-Europeanist|the humorist|Douglas Adams}}<br />
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'''Douglas Quentin Adams''' is a professor of [[English language|English]] at the [[University of Idaho]] and an [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] comparativist. Adams studied at the [[University of Chicago]], taking his PhD in 1972. He is an expert on [[Tocharian languages|Tocharian]] and a contributor on this subject to the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''.<br />
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He has also co-authored two works on [[Proto-Indo-European society|Indo-European culture]] and [[Indo-European languages|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 (anthropologist)|Roger Pearson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jies.org/|title=Journal of Indo-European Studies|access-date=21 December 2019}}</ref> <br />
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At the University of Idaho, Adams teaches courses on [[linguistics]], and [[grammar]] and [[semantics]] for the [[English as a second or foreign language|English as a Second Language]] program.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/2209/89/|title=The University of Idaho Argonaut - UI professor goes international|ref=uiInterview}}{{dead link|date=September 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
*{{cite book|author-last=Adams|author-first=Douglas Q.|title=Essential modern Greek grammar|publisher=[[Dover Publications]]|location=New York |year=1987|isbn=0-486-25133-0|ref=modernGreekGrammar|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/essentialmoderng00adam}}<br />
*{{cite book|author-last=Adams|author-first=Douglas|title=Tocharian historical phonology and morphology|publisher=[[American Oriental Society]]|location=New Haven, Conn|year=1988|isbn=0-940490-71-4|ref=tocharianPhonology}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture]]|author-last1=Mallory|author-first1=J. P.|author-link1=J. P. Mallory|author-last2=Adams|author-first2=D. Q.|year=1997|publisher=[[Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers]]|location=London and Chicago|isbn=1-884964-98-2}}<br />
*{{cite book|author-last1=Hamp|author-first1=Eric P.|author-link1=Eric P. Hamp|author-last2=Adams|author-first2=Douglas|title=Festschrift for [[Eric P. Hamp]]|publisher=[[Institute for the Study of Man]]|location=Washington, D.C|year=1997|isbn=0-941694-57-7|ref=hampFestschrift}}<br />
*{{cite book|author-last=Adams|author-first=Douglas|title=A dictionary of Tocharian B|publisher=[[Rodopi Publishers]]|location=Amsterdam|volume=1|year=2013|edition=2nd|pages=964|isbn=9042036710|ref=tocharianDictionary}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World<br />
|author-last1=Mallory|author-first1=J. P.|author-last2=Adams|author-first2=D. Q.|year=2006<br />
|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=USA|pages=760|isbn=0-19-929668-5}}<br />
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