Petr Sgall (27 May 1926 – 28 May 2019) was a Czech linguist. He specialized in dependency grammar, topic–focus articulation and Common Czech.
Sgall was born on 27 May 1926 in České Budějovice. His father was an attorney and a translator from LitomyšlofJewish 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 CzechatCharles UniversityinPrague.
His son is mathematician and computer scientist Jiří Sgall [cs] (* 1965).[1]
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