Petr Sgall
Professor Emeritus, Charles University, Prague
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University, Prague
UFAL, MFF UK
Malostranske namesti 25
CZ-118 00 Praha
phone: +420-221-914-252
e-mail: sgall@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Born
1926, C. Budejovice
Education
- Charles University, Faculty of Philosophy,
- General and Indo-European Linguistics, 1949
Degrees
- PhDr, Charles University, Fac. of Philosophy, 1949;
- CSc (Ph.D.) General and Indo-European Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles Univ., 1955;
- docent (habilitation, assoc. prof.) General and Indo-European Linguistics, Charles Univ., Fac. of Philosophy, 1958
- DrSc - Mathematical Linguistics, Charles Univ., Fac. of Philos., 1966
- research professor - Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, Charles Univ., Fac. of Mathematics and Physics, 1967
- professor - General Linguistics, Charles Univ., Faculty of Philos., 1990
Affiliation
- Charles University, Prague
- Fac. of Philosophy: 1950-1961
- Fac. of Mathematics and Physics: 1962-1967
- Fac. of Philosophy (head of Laboratory of Algebraic Linguistics) 1968-1972
- Fac. of Mathematics and Physics: 1973-1990
- Fac. of Philosophy: 1990-92 (head of Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics 1990-1991, retired Oct. 1st, 1992)
- Fac. of Mathematics and Physics 1993-today
Membership in scientific associations
- International Committee of Computational Linguistics
- Association for Computational Linguistics, European Chapter
- Academia Europaea
- Societas linguistica Europaea
- Prague Linguistic Circle
- Czech Linguistic Association
- Czech Association of Cybernetics
- Czech Association of Computer Science
Longer stays
- 1956
- 6 months at University of Cracow, Poland
- 1968-1969
- 10 months at University of Grenoble and CNRS
- 1983
- 1 month as guest professor at the University of Hamburg
- 1990-1991
- 5 months at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, Wassenaar
- 1992
- 6 months at German Universities
- 1993
- 4 months at the University of Vienna
Awards
- 1992
- A.v.Humboldt research award
- 1993
- Silver Metal from the Minister of Education of the Czech Republic
- 1995
- Honorary Doctorate of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris
- 1998
- Honorary Doctorate of the Hamburg University
- 1998
- Jubilee Metal from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague
- 2002
- Honorary member of Linguistic Society of America
- 2005
- Jubilee medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic to the anniversary of the end of the 2nd world war
Main areas of research and teaching
- syntax and its relationships to semantics and pragmatics,
- typology of languages, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics
Main publications (books)
- Development of inflection in Indo-European languages (in Czech), Prague: NČSAV 1958
- Die Infinitive im Rigveda. In: AUC-Philologica 2-3, Prague 1958
- Generative description of language and the Czech Declension (in Czech), Prague: Academia 1967
- Language in its multifarious aspects, Prague: Karolinum 2006
with coauthors
- A functional approach to syntax (with A. Goralčíková, E. Hajičová and L. Nebeský), New York: American Elsevier 1969
- Topic, focus and generative semantics (with E. Hajičová and E. Benešová), Kronberg/Taunus: Scriptor 1973
- Topic-focus articulation in Czech (in Czech, with E. Hajičová and E. Buráňová), Prague: Academia 1980
- The meaning of the sentence in its semantic and pragmatic aspects (with . Hajičová and J. Panevová), Dordrecht: Reidel and Prague: Academia 1986
- Variation in language: Czech as a challenge to sociolinguistics (with J. Hronek, A. Stich and J. Horecký), Amsterdam: Benjamins 1992
- Topic-focus articulation, tripartite structures, and semantic content (with E. Hajičová and B. H. Partee), Dordrecht: Kluwer 1998
Publications
Member of the editorial boards of
- Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics (book series at John Benjamins Publ. House, Amsterdam)
- Zeitschrift fur Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
- Slovo a slovesnost
- Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics