Books
Chen, Yiting and Yo Matsumoto. 2018. Goiteki-fukugō-dōshi no imi to taikei: Konsutorakushon-keitairon to furēmu-imiron [The Semantics and Organization of Japanese Lexical Compound Verbs: Construction Morphology and Frame Semantics]. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.
A review of the book by Dr. Kimi Akita of Nagoya University:
Haiyan Xia, Tao Han, Yasuhiko Takahashi, Yiting Chen, Jianmin Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Yuting Dong, Caihong Yang, Xiaomin Liu, and Biao Liu. 2015. Xiaomin Liu, Yasuhiko Takahashi, and Biao Liu (eds.) Japanese-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics (Chapter 3 Lexicon). Tianjin: Nankai University Press.
Papers
Shinohara, Kazuko, Yoshihiro Matsunaka & Yiting Chen. 2025. ANGER in Japanese: “My bowels are boiling.” In Zoltán Kövecses, Réka Benczes & Veronika Szelid (eds.), Metaphors of ANGER across languages: Universality and Variation. Volume 2: From Japanese to Ukrainian. Berlin & New York: De Gruyter Mouton. 739-803.
Chen, Yiting. 2024. A related-event approach to event integration in Japanese complex predicates: Iconicity, frequency, or efficiency? Cognitive Linguistics 35(3): 439-479.
Chen, Yiting. 2023. Baseline and elaboration in word formation. In F. T. Li (ed.), Handbook of Cognitive Semantics. Leiden: Brill.
Chen, Yiting. 2022. Toward a linguistic analysis based on events related to verbs: Resultative constructions of drinking in Japanese and English. In Yo Matsumoto and Kyoko H. Ohara (eds.), Frame semantics' contributions: Verbs and related expressions, 105-127. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
Chen, Yiting. 2020. Macro-events in verb–verb compounds from the perspective of baseline and elaboration: Iconicity in typology and grammaticalization. Cognitive Semantics 6(1): 1-28.
Chen, Yiting. 2020. A frame-constructional approach to Chinese causative-resultative construction. In Publication Committee for the Festschrift for Professor Yo Matsumoto on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (ed.), Cognitive Linguistics Spreads its Wings: Toward Truly Empirical Linguistic Research, 82-98. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
Chen, Yiting. 2019. The constructionalization of double negatives in Japanese. Bulletin of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Mie University (4): 19-31.
Matsumoto, Yo and Yiting Chen. 2018. Naku 'cry': A frame-semantic analysis based on the semantics of compound nouns and verbs. Kobe papers in linguistics 11: 50-57.
Chen, Yiting. 2018. Lexical symmetry breaking in antonyms. Kobe papers in linguistics 11: 1-13.
Chen, Yiting. 2017. The classification of compounds in baseline/elaboration theory: Focusing on Japanese compound verbs. NINJAL Research Papers (13): 25-50.
Chen, Yiting. 2017. The asymmetry of antonyms in compounds. Papers from the 17th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association 17: 133-145.
Chen, Yiting. 2016. Japanese lexical compound verbs as constructions. Lexicon Forum 7: 125-156.
Chen, Yiting. 2015. The formation of intransitive subject unshared compound verbs in Japanese: Profile shift and resultative perception. Papers from the 15th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association 15: 158-170.
Chen, Yiting. 2014. A frame-semantic approach to the argument realization of Japanese lexical compound verbs. KLS 34: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society: 181-192.
Chen, Yiting, 2013. A frame-semantic approach to verb-verb compound verbs in Japanese: A case study of V-toru. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS39), 16-30. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
Chen, Yiting. 2013. A semantic constraint on the combination of Japanese compound verbs: A case study of -otosu, -morasu and -nogasu. KLS 33: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society: 145-156.
Chen, Yiting. 2008. A semantic analysis of V2s in Japanese compound verbs expressing the direction of ascent: Focusing on "-agaru", "-ageru", and "-noboru". Proceedings of the 2008 Da-Yeh University Applied Japanese Linguistics Academic Review Meeting "Japanese Linguistic Research, Teaching, and Application": 97-111.
Dissertation
Chen, Yiting. 2015. The formation of Japanese lexical compound verbs: A comparison with Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Kobe University.