Vladimír Skalička

Vladimír Skalička (19 August 1909 – 17 January 1991) was a Czech professor, linguist, translator, and polyglot. A member of the influential Prague School of linguists and literary critics and a corresponding member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, he is credited with further developing morphological typology.[1][2][3]

Vladimír Skalička
Born(1909-08-19)19 August 1909
Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died17 January 1991(1991-01-17) (aged 81)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Alma materCharles University in Prague
Known forMorphological typology
Spouse(s)Alena Skaličková
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics
InstitutionsCharles University in Prague

Life and work

Skalička was born on 19 August 1909 in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary. His grandfather was Czech painter Josef Mánes.[2] He became associated with the Prague School while studying at Charles University in Prague, at which he habilitated in 1935, writing on Finno-Ugric linguistics.[3][4] He remained at the university, and in 1946 was appointed professor there, founding the department of linguistics and phonetics.[3] He continued to write until late into his life in a number of languages, collaborating with a number of other linguists including his wife, Alena Skaličková.[5]

His work included translation and comparative studies of languages, and was reported to have a basic understanding of approximately 1200 languages and dialects.[2]

He developed morphological typology into five categories, classifying languages into isolating, agglutinating, inflectional, introflectional, and polysynthetic.[2]

References
  1. "Skalička, Vladimír". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1979. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  2. "SKALIČKA Vladimir" [Who's who in our history of the 20th century]. KDO BYL KDO v našich dějinách ve 20. století (in Czech). Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  3. VEČERKA, Radoslav. "SKALIČKA, Vladimir (1909-1991)" (PDF). Bibliographic medallions of Czech linguists: scholars and Slavicists [online] (Czech: Bibliografické medailonky českých lingvistů: bohemistů a slavistů). Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages, Masaryk University. p. 86. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
  4. Kuldanová, Pavlina; Svobodová, Jana (2003). "Pražský lingvistický kroužek" [Prague Linguistic Circle] (in Czech). Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  5. "Vladimír Skalička [1909-1991]: Bibliografie" [Vladimír Skalička [1909-1991]: Bibliography] (in Czech). Retrieved 1 October 2013.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.