i. Despite the superabundance of material they present, previous treatments of the syntax of the English noun are characterized by insufficient organization according to function. Of interest or importance are: Bernard Bloch and George L. Trager, Outline of Linguistic Analysis (Baltimore, 1942), pp. 77-78; Leonard Bloomfield, Language (New York, i933), pp. 20o-6; George O. Curme, A Grammar of the English Language (New York, 1931), III, 549-56; H. A. Gleason, Jr., An hItroduction to Descriptive Linguistics (New York, i955), pp. 145-47; Otto Jespersen, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Part II (Heidelberg, I927), pp. 70-210, and Part Vll, completed by Niels Haislund (Copenhagen, 1949), pp. 416-71, 479-579; E. Kruisinga, A Handbook of PresevtDay English (Utrecht, 1925), 1, 3-43, 173-278; Ralph B. Long, A Grammar of American English (Austin, Texas, 195z), I, 11 5-32; H. Poutsma, A Grammar of Late Modern English, Part II, IA (Groningen, 1914), pp. 112-276, 365-426, 51 3-699, and Part II, IB (Groningen, 1916), pp. ror 1-1224; R. W. Zandvoort, A Handbook of English Grammar (London, 1957), pp. 90-1-27. This outline is, of course, based on the speech of the writer. In a briefer version, it was read at the Tenth Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April, 1957). 2. Charles C. Fries, The Structure of English; an Introduction to the Construction of English Sentences (New York, 1952), pp. 76-79, 88-89. Fries states that the numerical determiners go from thirty-one to ninety-nine (information echoed by Donald J. Lloyd and Harry R. Warfel in American English in Its Cultural Setting [New York, i956], p. I i 1), which implies that unlisted numbers are not determiners. Obviously, Fries's list is limited by his material, which apparently does not include most of the numbers less than thirty-one or