Causative Construction in Javanese

Abstract Causative construction refers to sentences contains verbs with meaning of causing an event. The construction might involve verbs that lexically have causal meaning or verbs with causal affixes. This paper aims at analyzing causative constructions found in Javanese. The data are taken from low register of Javanese spoken in Malang, a city in eastern part of Java island and are analyzed descriptively against theory of causative construction by Kroeger (2004). The data is analyzed based on three types of causative (Kroeger, 2004). The analysis show that three types of causative construction: lexical, analytical and morphological causatives exist in Eastern Javanese. Keywords: causative, lexical, analytical, morphological, Javanese