Comparative sentences express equality or similarity, usually by means of a subordinate clause. The comparative component is introduced by certain lexical items, which may be (a) prepositions: -כ ke- ‘like, as’, (-כמו/כמות (ש kemo/kemot (še-) ‘like, as’ (the complementizer -ש še- ‘that’ is used to introduce a clause); or (b) prepositional phrases consisting of the preposition -כ ke- ‘as’ followed by a participle or noun, e.g., -כיוצא ב kay-yoṣe be- ‘like (lit. ‘as it goes out in’)’, -כשם ש ke-šem še- ‘just as’, -כדרך ש ke-dereḵ še- ‘in a similar way’, -כעניין ש ke-ʿinyan še- ‘in a simila…