About Douglas Q. Adams
Born 2000. Douglas Q. Adams is an American linguist, university teacher, editor, scholar of English and philologist.
Douglas Quentin Adams is an American linguist, professor of English at the University of Idaho and an Indo-European comparativist. He studied at the University of Chicago, earning PhD in 1972. Adams 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.
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Douglas Q. Adams was born in 2000.
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