Background
Sgall, Petr was born on May 27, 1926 in Budejovice, Czechoslovakia. Son of Oskar Sgall and Ruzena (Hüblová) Sgallová.
Sgall, Petr was born on May 27, 1926 in Budejovice, Czechoslovakia. Son of Oskar Sgall and Ruzena (Hüblová) Sgallová.
Doctor of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1949. Computer Sciences Corporation, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1955. Doctor of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1966.
Doctor Honoris Causa, INALCO, Paris, 1995. Doctor Honoris Causa, University Hamburg, 1998.
He specializes in dependency grammar, topic–focus articulation and Common Czechoslovakian. Petr Sgall was born 27 May 1926 in České Budějovice. His father was an attorney and translator from Litomyšl of Jewish descent.
Most of Sgall"s closest relatives were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
He studied Indo-European studies, Comparative linguistics, General linguistics and Czechoslovakian at Charles University in Prague.
Member Society Linguistica Europaea (international committee of computational linguistics), Czechoslovak Linguistic Society, Czechoslovak Cybernetic Society, Czechoslovak Union of Mathematicians and Physicists.
Married Eva Zahelová, 1950 (divorced 1952). 1 child, Ivan; married Kvetuse Hofbauerová, 1958. Children: Jir+289, Alena.