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.