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Abstract

This study investigates the Noun phrase structure and their existence in [wh] questions of Javanese
language. The paper pays special attention to how the structure differs from that of the English language in particular. The study elicited data from three (3) native speakers of the Javanese language. It adopts a purely qualitative technique. Questionnaire was the complementary instrument used. Transcription helped the field researchers to get the accurate sounds for recording purpose. The analysis section describes each word in the contexts using English as a medium to derive its lexical meaning and then analyze the structural pattern, paying greater attention to noun phrases in each contextual feature ([wh) question). In most cases as found in the language, noun phrase headed by noun, pronoun are premodified rather than postmodified as in the case of English language. In some cases, Noun phrase features (noun head and a modifier) is presented as a single noun in Javanese language, claiming that, the modifiers are contextually embedded in the language structure. The noun prase structure in the language is also characterized by omission of auxiliary verbs, plural formation by reduplication etc.