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: There's "working" software in basically all languages. There's some surprisingly good forum software written in x86 assembly.
gollark: It "works" but it's a poorly designed language.
gollark: (also, it can download YouTube videos)
gollark: (it serves HTTP, connects to an MPD instance, connects to an IRC server, and serves DNS, simultaneously)
gollark: And probably just add it to my horribly convoluted python server thing.
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