a strategy for equative constructions which combines two predicates, one expressing equality of the comparee on the gradable predicative scale, similar to the equal equative, and the other expressing the standard in a structure similar to the relative-based equative. Like the relative-based equative, but unlike the equal equative, the relative equal equative is a derived-case strategy. Example: Spanish Douglas y Pedro son igual de altos que María Douglas and Pedro are as tall as María is an instance of the relative equal equative; the matrix predicate is son igual [they] are equal and the deranked de altos describes the scale. (Section 17.2.4)