Re: Morphemic Analysis of Vulcan Utterances
Rob Zook 
Sun, 02 Nov 1997 00:57:24 -0600

At 02:46 PM 10/26/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
>spok-'at krup-at-'-or-ram u-plak
>Spock-GEN blue-,7-+-,3-green that(INVIS)-blood
>spok'at krupat'oram uplak		that blue-green blood of >Spock

I think I should disagree with your changes here Saul.

The original was krupat'oram = blue-green

krup= blue   at = 0,7
ram = yellow or = 0,3

This makes sense to me since green is a blending of yellow
and blue. The fractions then seem to give us a recipe for
the exact color blue+yellow but more blue than yellow. Note
the total of the fractions equals one. So blueish green.

>d-whl-naar
>ART-[?]-[choice?]
>d'whlnaar		Vulcan by choice

If d'whlnaar means Vulcan by choice and whl'q'n is the name
of the planet Vulcan perhaps the whl is a morpheme and refers 
to "vulcans", so maybe -'q'n means "world", or "home"?

Except in the addentum to the Lexicon, the author goes on
two use the word whl'q'n to mean both the name of the planet
and the name of the race.

I wonder if the second usage as a name of the race could be
and example of Vulcan metonymy?

BTW, I found an absolutely incredible book the otherday at
the library: _The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language_. It has
articals on virtually every facete of language, and it is
still in print. Highly recomended.

Rob Z.