Petr Sgall

This article is about the linguist. For the director, see Peter Segal. For the radio host, see Peter Sagal.
Petr Sgall
Born(1926-05-27)27 May 1926
České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia
(now Czech Republic)
Died28 May 2019(2019-05-28) (aged 93)
Prague, Czech Republic
Resting placeOlšany Cemetery
(Prague, Czech Republic)
ChildrenJiří Sgall
Academic background
Alma materCharles University

Petr Sgall (27 May 1926 – 28 May 2019) was a Czech linguist. He specialized in dependency grammar, topic–focus articulation and Common Czech.

Biography

Sgall was born on 27 May 1926 in České Budějovice. His father was an attorney and a translator from Litomyšl of Jewish descent. Sgall studied at Česká Třebová high school; however he was expelled in the 1942/43 academic year because of his Jewish father. Most of Sgall's closest relatives were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

He studied Indo-European studies, comparative linguistics, general linguistics and Czech at Charles University in Prague.

His son is mathematician and computer scientist Jiří Sgall.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Příběh o elegantním tenistovi". Archived from the original on 28 September 2015.
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