Petr Sgall (27 May 1926 â 28 May 2019) was a Czech linguist. He specialized in dependency grammar, topicâÂÂfocus articulation and Common Czech.
Sgall was born on 27 May 1926 in ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice. His father was an attorney and a translator from Litomyà ¡l of Jewish descent. Sgall studied at ÃÂeská Tà Âebová 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 .