Concept: comparative construction

Definition

A comparative construction is a construction which compares two entities with respect to a °gradable property and in which one of the two shows a higher degree of the property than the other.

Comments

The most commonly discussed type of comparative construction is called "basic comparative construction".

Wikipedia

comparative sentence

Quotation

"In semantic or cognitive terms, comparison can be defined as a mental act by which two objects are assigned a position on a predicative scale. If the positions on the scale are different, then we speak of the comparison of inequality, which finds its linguistic encoding in comparative constructions. Such a construction essentially involves three things: a predicative scale, which, in language, is usually encoded as a gradable predicate, and two objects." (Stassen 2005)