Xaverio Ballester (full name in Spanish transcription: Francisco Javier Ballester Gómez) is a Spanish linguist, professor at

University of Valencia The University of Valencia ( ), shortened to UV, is a public research university in Valencia, Spain. It is one of the oldest universities in Spain, and the oldest in the Valencian Community. It is regarded as one of Spain's leading academic i ...

and one of main proponents of

Paleolithic continuity theory The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE), meaning it was the region where the proto-language was spoken before it split into the dialects from which the earliest Indo-European langua ...

(aka Paleolithic continuity paradigm).

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);Currículum Vitae de miembros de comisiones para concursos de acceso a los cuerpos docentes universitarios
, Universidad de Zaragoza, 2009. 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 Clásic''a, Valencia 2010.

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