a fixed-case strategy in comparative constructions in which there is a clause which attributes a gradable predicative scale to the comparee, and the standard is expressed as an oblique argument phrase using a spatial flag with a locative (on, at) meaning. Example: Ubykh yi-gune wo-gune-n ca-qasaqa-j This tree is taller than that tree is an instance of the locative comparative: yi-gune ca-qasaqa-j asserts that this tree is bigger, and wo-gune-n expresses the standard, that tree, with a suffix -n meaning on. (Section 17.2.2)