A universal scale of comparison

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The grammar of standards: Judge-dependence, purpose-relativity, and comparison classes in degree constructions (2014, methodology): “One defining property of comparison class for-PPs as in (154-a) is the presupposition that the subject of the gradable predicate is a member of the set denoted by the DP inside the comparison class for-phrase (Kennedy, 2007; Bale, 2008):”
Degree modification of gradable nouns: size adjectives and adnominal degree morphemes (2009, background): “As Bale (2006, 2008) shows, there are entirely independent reasons to believe that such an abstract scale may play an important semantic role.”
Mandarin transitive comparatives and the grammar of measurement (2012, background): “…constructions—is that they denote relations between individuals and degrees, where degrees are values that provide a basis for ordering objects relative to some dimension (see Cresswell 1977; von Stechow 1984a; Bierwisch 1989; Kennedy 2001; Schwarzschild and Wilkinson 2002; Heim 2006; Bale 2009).”
Scales and comparison classes (2011, background): “They should influence (1) the calculation of the standard of comparison, ( 2 ) the application of the measure function to the subject(s) of comparison and (3) the construction of scales based on quasi orders.”