Petr Sgall

He specialized in dependency grammar, topic–focus articulation and Common Czech.

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.

His son is mathematician and computer scientist Jiří Sgall [cs] (* 1965).