the strategy for comparative (and possibly equative) constructions which directly expresses two of the propositions that form the meaning of the comparative – that the gradable predicative scale applies to the comparee, and that the comparee exceeds the standard on the scale. That is to say, the relative strategy recruits a same-subject, conditionally deranked, usually simultaneous temporal complex sentence construction to express comparison. The exceed comparative is an example of the relative strategy; the conjoined exceed strategy appears to be a related type. (Section 17.2.3)