On with detail #69: A construction for predicative comparison

Developing this idea a bit, we get to constructions along the line of 

Stephen is taller than Everett 

So, we have one separate lexeme for tall (let us call it 'tall'), and one somewhat more general lexeme for 'taller' (also including meanings like bigger, stronger, wider, meatier, manlier, more robust, sturdier... ). Let us say the comparative lexeme is 'balls'. The above meaning would correlate to

Stephen is balls, Everett (is) tall.

For a thing like 'Stephen is stronger than ever', you could do something like:

Stephen is balls since strong? Stephen is balls ever strong? Stephen is now balls for strong.

Of course, some languages have comparatives also doing double duty as some kind of intensifying adjective. This obviously has a problem in a language with this adjective system, as the more intense adjectives all cover a much wider semantic space than the regular ones.

What could help this out would be some kind of almost-duplication:

Stephen is balls tall ('Stephen is very tall')

The two words don't need to form a sequence, they can be distributed throughout the sentence depending on various factors.