Honorific patterns and honorification of causativity with “Nasaru” in the Spoken Japanese New Testament

The present paper studied the usage of “Nasaru” a honorific variant of “Suru” in comparison with “Sareru” in the Spoken Japanese New Testament.BR And we also studied the three roles of “Nasaru” as follows:BR [1] Nasaru in false separation as in Susumeru → (Susume-Wo-Suru ; false separation) → Susume-Wo-Nasaru ・Mukuiru → Mukui-Wo-Suru (false separation)＞ → Mukui-Wo-Suru .BR [2] Renyoukei+Nasaru in the honorific form as in Mukuiru → (Mukui-suru ; false union) → Mukui-nasaru (honorificaiton) ・Arawareru → (Araware-suru ; false union) →Araware-nasaru (honorification) ・Hohuru →(Hohuri-suru ; false union) → Hohuri-nasaru (honorification) .BR [3] Nasaru for the honorification of causativity as in Kaeru → Kaera-seru (causativization) → Kaera-se-nasaru (honorification) ・Tsugu → Tsuga-seru (causativization)＞ → Tsuga-se-nasaru (honorification) ・Hohuru → Hohura-seru (causativization) → Hohura-se-nasaru (honorification) .BR There have been little studies on the honorification of the suffixed derivatives, for example, causativity or passivization, in the literature. Though the causativity and honorification on Tsuga-se-nasari-masu-ka, Hohura-se-nasatta were studied in this paper, we admit that our study suffer some limitation and further study is needed.