This study analyzes the textuality of Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” focusing on its morphologic segmentation linearity analyses. This study utilizes structural analysis as the method of analyzing data. Findings reveal that the linear morphologic segmentation of morphemic contents of Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” reveals twenty-six (26) lexical morphemes of six (6) simple forms (roots), fifteen (15) complex forms (roots and affixation), four (4) irregular verbs (verbs and affixation), and one (1) compound word (head and modifier) and two hundred twelve (212) grammatical morphemes broken down as follows: one hundred eighty-three (183) determiners, sixteen (16) adverbs, six (6) prepositions, four (4) verbs,  two (2) pronouns, and one (1) conjunction. Based on the findings, it can be said that the chosen 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 other linguistic investigations like the syntactic and phonetic morphologic segmentation linearity should also be done to analyze better and understand the textuality of Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”.

Keywords: Morphologic Analysis, Segmentation Linearity, Free Morpheme, Lexical Morpheme, Grammatical Morpheme.

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