I wish to express gratitude to Professor Bernard Bloch for suggesting the topic of this dissertation and for guiding my analysis; I am further indebted to him for much of my understanding of linguistic theory. I am grateful also for the kind encouragement and guidance throughout my graduate work of other faculty members at the University of California 1947-9, the Linguistic Institute at the University of Michigan 1948, and Yale University 1949-50: Professors Peter A. Boodberg, Denzel Carr, Y. R. Chao, .J.M. Cowan, Franklin Edgerton, Murray B. Emeneau, Mary R. Haas, Harry Hoijer, and Ralph L. Ward. I have profited from discussions with Professors Isidore Dyen, Elizabeth F. Gardner, Johannes Rahder, and Rulon S. Wells of Yale University. Other influences will be found in the Bibliography. To Dr. Eleanor Harz Jorden I am grateful for permission to use part of her data on numeral-counter compounds; to Dr. Masako Yokoyama of the University of Hawaii, and to Mrs. Miyo Okada, Mr. Toshio Kono, and Mr. Senzo Usui of Yale University, I express my thanks for their kindness in checking certain facts. The Graduate School of Yale University made the completion of this dissertation possible through the grant of a Junior Sterling Fellowship. Part of the dissertation was presented before the Linguistic Institute at Ann Arbor in 1950, which I attended on a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and the present version benefits from suggestions received at that time.