Xaverio Ballester (full name in Spanish transcription: Francisco Javier Ballester Gómez) is a Spanish linguist, professor at
University of Valencia[1] and one of main proponents of
Paleolithic continuity theory (aka Paleolithic continuity paradigm).[2]
Biography
He obtained Ph.D. in Classical Philology at University of Barcelona in 1987. Teaching positions include: Professor titular of Latin Philology in the University of Zaragoza (1989);[3] Professor of Latin Philology in the University of Valencia (1997); Professor of Latin Philology in the University of La Laguna (1997, resign).
Ballester is also co-editor of the journal Liburna.
Works
Books on the Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm
Las Primeras Palabras de la Humanidad, Valencia 2002.
Zoónimos ancestrales, Valencia 2007.
Linguística Indo-Europeia Tradicional e Paradigma da Continuidade Paleolítica cara a cara, Lisboa 2009.
Other books
A Catulo usque ad Catullum. Studia neoterica, Barcelona 1988.
Fonemática del latín clásico. Consonantismo, Zaragoza 1996.
Los Mejores Títulos y los Peores Versos de la Literatura Latina, Barcelona 1998.
Gálatas, Getas y Atlantes. Tres Ensayos de GeoFilología Clásica, Valencia 2010.