In Rodney Huddleston & Geoffrey K. Pullum's The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (The CGEL) , how are clauses of measure or degree (such as "He is older than I am" ) syntactically analyzed?

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In Rodney Huddleston & Geoffrey K. Pullum's  The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (The CGEL) , how are clauses of measure or degree (such as  "He is older than I am" ) syntactically analyzed?

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As Comparative Clauses that contain a structural "gap"

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As peripheral Style Disjuncts marking speaker’s stance

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As finite content clauses acting as direct objects

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As pure prepositional modifiers without an embedded verb phrase

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