Xaverio Ballester (full name in Spanish transcription: Francisco Javier Ballester Gómez) is a Spanish linguist, professor at University of ValenciaProfesor Ballester Gomez, Francisco Javier, Universitat de València and one of main proponents of Paleolithic continuity theory (aka Paleolithic continuity paradigm).Alinei, Mario. "The Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm for the origins of Indo-European languages: An Introduction in progress" , PCP study group website
Career Ballester obtained a PhD in Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona in 1987. His subsequent 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.
In 2002, he proposed that the Astures people of northern Spain are not of Indo-European origin, citing evidence from Ancient Greek sources, the phonology of Asturian, and the practice of covada, a tradition where the father stimulates childbirth.
Works Works on the Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm Las Primeras Palabras de la Humanidad, Valencia 2002. Sobre el origen anindoeuropeo de los ástures y maragatos. Palaeohispanica, 2002. Zoónimos ancestrales, Valencia 2007. Linguística Indo-Europeia Tradicional e Paradigma da Continuidade Paleolítica cara a cara, Lisboa 2009. Origen de la lengua valenciana.
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.
References
External links Ballester's works at Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm website