Books
Chen, Yiting & 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:
Xia, Haiyan, Tao Han, Yasuhiko Takahashi, Yiting Chen, Jianmin Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Yuting Dong, Caihong Yang, Xiaomin Liu & Biao Liu. 2015. Xiaomin Liu, Yasuhiko Takahashi & Biao Liu (eds.) Japanese-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics (Chapter 3 Lexicon). Tianjin: Nankai University Press.
Papers
Chen, Yiting & Yoshihiro Matsunaka. In press. Contouring emotion dynamics through metaphor: A related-event approach to emotion nouns in Japanese and English. Metaphor and Symbol.
Chen, Yiting. 2026. Meaning networks based on related events: Focusing on verbs that form Japanese compound verbs. Papers from the 26th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association 26: 587-592.
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 & 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 & 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.