Petr Sgall

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.

gollark: I mean, if I made a mod with a block which gave infinite amounts of any resource, BUT it needs 10 RF which it can't generate, it's overpowered.
gollark: Yes, totally valid.
gollark: Or at least with other mods.
gollark: It doesn't matter much though, given that it's clearly meant for use in big packs.
gollark: Not really.
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