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Zimmer graduated from Yale University in 1992 with a B.A. degree in linguistics, and went on to study linguistic anthropology at the University of Chicago.[1] For his research on the languages of Indonesia, he received fellowships from the National Science Foundation,[2] the Fulbright Program,[3] and the Social Science Research Council.[4] He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, Kenyon College and Rutgers University.[1]
In 2005, Zimmer was named a research associate at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania and became a regular contributor to Language Log, a group weblog on language and linguistics.[5] He was named editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Press in 2006,[6] and the following year launched "From A to Zimmer," a weekly lexicography column on the OUP blog.[7]
In 2008, Zimmer was appointed executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus, an interactive reference tool from Thinkmap, Inc.[8] He edits the online content of the Visual Thesaurus and its sister site Vocabulary.com, and writes a regular column on word origins entitled "Word Routes."[1]
Zimmer's research on word origins was frequently cited by William Safire's "On Language" column for The New York Times Magazine. On March 11, 2010, Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati announced the appointment of Zimmer as the new “On Language” columnist, succeeding Safire, the founding and regular columnist until his death in late 2009.[9] Zimmer's last "On Language" column was published on February 27, 2011. In it, Zimmer wrote that the column was "finally coming to a close" and that "it [was] time to bid adieu, after some 1,500 dispatches from the frontiers of language." On December 18, 2011, The Boston Globe announced that Zimmer would be a regular language columnist for the newspaper's Sunday Ideas section.[10]
Zimmer's writing on language has appeared in two blog anthologies: Ultimate Blogs (Vintage, 2008, ISBN 978-0307278067)[11][12] and Far from the Madding Gerund (William, James, 2006, ISBN 978-1590280553).[13][14] He has also written for Slate,[15] The New York Times Book Review,[16] The New York Times Sunday Review,[17] and The Atlantic.[18]
Zimmer is the chair of the American Dialect Society's New Words Committee and has served on the society's Executive Council.[19] He is also a member of the Dictionary Society of North America.[20]
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Benjamin is the brother of science writer Carl Zimmer and the son of former New Jersey congressman Dick Zimmer.
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^ a b c d Steven Yaccino (May-June 2011). "Away with words". University of Chicago Magazine. http://magazine.uchicago.edu/1106/features/away-with-words.shtml. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
^ "Graduate students lead nation in Fulbright awards". University of Chicago Chronicle. 1997-06-12. http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/970612/awards.shtml. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
^ "Graduate students receive the most Fulbrights". University of Chicago Chronicle. 1999-06-10. http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/990610/fulbright.shtml. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
^ "International Dissertation Research Fellowships, 1999 Fellows". Social Science Research Council. http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/competitions/idrf-fellowship/061D2424-3904-DD11-BEF0-001CC477EC70/. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
^ "Author profile, Benjamin Zimmer". Language Log. University of Pennsylvania. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?author=8. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
^ Andrew Adam Newman (2007-11-10). "How Dictionaries Define Publicity: The Word of the Year". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/business/media/10oxford.html. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
^ Casper Grathwohl (2007-06-27). "It's Coming... An A To Zimmer Introduction". OUPblog. Oxford University Press. http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/corpus/. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
^ "Editor for American Dictionaries at Oxford joins Visual Thesaurus Team". Thinkmap, Inc.. 2008-08-21. http://www.thinkmap.com/news.jsp. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
^ "The New York Times Magazine Names Ben Zimmer as ‘On Language’ Columnist". Business Wire. 2010-03-11. http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100311006834. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
^ Ben Zimmer (2011-12-18). "What we talked about in 2011". The Boston Globe. http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2011/12/18/what-talked-about/a3UP8sPAFziCmRnLIOjtcJ/story.html. Retrieved 2011-12-31. "This week marks Ben Zimmer’s debut as a regular Word columnist for Ideas."
^ David Kamp (2008-03-23). "Permalinks". The New York Times Book Review. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Kamp-t.html?ref=review. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
^ "Nonfiction Reviews". Publishers Weekly. 2007-12-17. http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/1-legacy/16-all-book-reviews/article/10268-nonfiction-reviews-week-of-12-17-2007-.html. Retrieved 2011-05-23. "Benjamin Zimmer's 'Language Log' reads like a wonderfully expansive and more self-aware William Safire column."
^ "Introduction". Far from the Madding Gerund. William, James. http://www.wmjasco.com/0555/0555-front.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
^ "Table of Contents, Far from the Madding Gerund". Library of Congress. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006008657.html. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
^ "Articles by Ben Zimmer". Slate. http://www.slate.com/?id=3944&qp=48150. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
^ Ben Zimmer (2011-07-29). "The Jargon of the Novel, Computed". The New York Times Book Review. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-the-jargon-of-the-novel-computed.html. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
^ Ben Zimmer (2011-10-29). "Twitterology: A New Science?". The New York Times Sunday Review. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/sunday/twitterology-a-new-science.html. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
^ "Articles by Ben Zimmer". The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/ben-zimmer. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
^ "Media Queries". American Dialect Society. http://www.americandialect.org/contact/media-queries-and-public-speakers. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
^ Gerald Marzorati (2010-03-21). "On Language With Ben Zimmer". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/magazine/21edlet-t.html. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
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