Abstract
This study analyzes the textuality of Aesop’s fable “The Farmer and The Snake” focusing on the analyses of its morphologic segmentation linearity. This study utilizes structural analysis as the method in analyzing data. Findings reveal that the linear morphologic segmentation of morphemic contents of Aesop’s fable “The Farmer and the snake” reveals thirty-two (32) lexical morphemes of eleven (11) simple form(roots) and twenty-one (21) complex forms (roots and affixations) and sixteen (17) grammatical morphemes broken down as follows: six (5) prepositions, five (5) pronouns, one (1) conjunction, one (1) particle, two (2) determiners, and three (3) auxiliaries. Based on the findings, it can be said that Aesop’s fable follows morphologic segmentation linearity as shown above based on its textuality. It is recommended that second language instruction should include linear morphologic analysis of the segmentation of the content and function words in varied textualities to aid vocabulary development. Further, it is proposed that the other linguistic investigations like the syntactic and phonetic morphologic segmentation linearity should also be done to better analyze and understand the textuality of Aesop’s fable “The Farmer and The Snake”.
