Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg is an assistant professor in the Bachelor of English Literature program at the Faculty of Humanities, Udayana University in Bali, Indonesia. From 1 January 2023 until 31 January 2025, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford, UK, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (Grant ID: AH/W007290/1) to build digital lexical resources for Enggano, a threatened language of Indonesia (PI: Prof. Mary Dalrymple [University of Oxford]; Co-PI: Prof. I Wayan Arka [Australian National University/Udayana University]). In 2020, he was appointed convener for the Corpus Linguistics course in the Doctoral Program of Linguistics at Udayana University. He is a certified instructor for “The Carpentries” (https://carpentries.org/index.html), specialising in teaching the R programming language. From December 2023, he has been elected as one of the Fellows of the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences (Akademi Ilmuwan Muda Indonesia [ALMI]: https://almi.or.id/anggota/anggota-almi/entry/1948/). He is interested in applying quantitative, computational, corpus-based, and experimental methods to study language from the usage-based, Cognitive Linguistic perspective. During his postdoctoral work, he expanded his interests in Austronesian historical-comparative linguistics, linguistic typology, and language documentation. He completed his Bachelor’s in English Language and Literature in April 2009 at Udayana University. His Bachelor’s thesis is a Cognitive Linguistic study of conceptual metaphors in song lyrics. It was supervised by Prof. N. L. Sutjiati Beratha and I Gusti Ngurah Parthama, M.Hum. (full text: https://doi.org/10.31237/osf.io/t4gxq). In August 2011, he graduated with a Master’s in Linguistics from Udayana University, working on the polysemy of the English lexeme HEAD from Cognitive and Corpus-Linguistic perspectives. The thesis was supervised by Prof. N. L. Sutjiati Beratha and Prof. I Nengah Sudipa (full text: https://doi.org/10.4225/03/564AAAF9244F7). He holds a PhD in Linguistics (2019) from Monash University, Australia, through the support of the Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS) and Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS). His PhD thesis (full text: https://doi.org/10.26180/5cac231a97fb1) investigates metaphors of HAPPINESS near-synonyms in Indonesian, combining insights from (i) the different sub-fields of Cognitive Linguistics, especially Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Frame Semantics, and Construction Grammar, and (ii) Quantitative Corpus Linguistics. The thesis was supervised by Associate Professor Alice Gaby, Dr Howard Manns, and Dr Simon Musgrave. Prof. Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Dr Karen Sullivan (University of Queensland, Australia) examined the thesis. In April 2020, his PhD thesis was awarded “High Commendation” for the “2019 Faculty of Arts Outstanding PhD thesis” award from the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Australia.

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