John Okell

Biographic Data

ID372094
NAMEJohn Okell
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEOkell
SIGNATUREOKELL J
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX1

  • Byàw

    John OkellCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2015

  • Maùng-zaìng

    Judith Becker, Gavin Douglas et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2015

  • Burmese (Myanmar) Dictionary of Grammatical Forms

    Anna J Allott, John OkellBOOKBurmese (Myanmar) Dictionary of…2001

    Suffixes, prefixes and other bound forms play a prominent part in the grammar of Burmese/Myanmar: they carry almost all the grammatical information contained in a sentence. This dictionary is a comprehensive list and account of those grammatical forms, providing a much needed supplement to the standard Burmese-English dictionaries, where the grammatical forms receive scant attention

  • Étude linguistique de nissaya birmans

    John OkellARTICLEBuddhist Studies Review1996

    Étude linguistique de nissaya birmans: traduction commentée de textes bouddhiques. William Pruitt. Presses de l'École française d'Extrême Orient, monographies, no. 174, Paris 1994. 287 pp. No price given

  • A Reference Grammar of Colloquial Burmese

    U Tin Htway, John OkellARTICLEOriens1976

  • A Reference Grammar of Colloquial Burmese

    Robert B Jones, John OkellARTICLELanguage1974

  • A Reference Grammar of Colloquial Burmese

    James A Matisoff, John OkellARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1973

  • Epistles Written on the Eve of the Anglo-Burmese War

    John Okell, Maung Htin AungARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1970

  • Beginning Burmese

    John Okell, William S Cornyn et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1970

  • Htin Aung (tr.)

    Open AccessJohn OkellARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1969

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  • Translation” and “Embellishment” in an Early Burmese Jātaka Poem

    Open AccessJohn OkellARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1967

    Pyo and jātaka . A considerable proportion of the corpus of Burmese literature consists of translations or adaptations from Buddhist texts in Pali. Some works are prose translations, but Pali texts also formed a basis for verse, particularly in the type of poem called “pyo”. There are a few pyo which merely enumerate precepts for virtuous conduct, and a small number dealing with secular subjects, but the majority narrate an episode from the Buddh…

  • The Great Po Sein

    John Okell, Kenneth Sein et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1967

  • Nissaya Burmese

    Open AccessJohn OkellARTICLELingua1965Cited by: 2References: 1

  • Learning Music from a Burmese Master

    John OkellARTICLEMan1964