Douglas Quentin Adams is an American linguist, professor ofEnglish at theUniversity of Idaho and anIndo-European comparativist. He studied at theUniversity of Chicago, earning PhD in 1972. Adams is an expert onTocharian and a contributor on this subject to theEncyclopædia Britannica.

He has also co-authored two works onIndo-European culture andlanguages withJ. P. Mallory of theRoyal Irish Academy. He is a Linguistics Editor at theJournal of Indo-European Studies, founded byRoger Pearson.^[1]

At the University of Idaho, Adams teaches courses onlinguistics, andgrammar andsemantics for theEnglish as a Second Language program.^[2]

• 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 forEric P. Hamp. Washington, D.C.:Institute for the Study of Man.ISBN 0-941694-57-7.
• Adams, Douglas (2013).A dictionary of Tocharian B. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Amsterdam:Rodopi Publishers. p. 964.ISBN 978-9042036710.
• 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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