Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Synchrony -- Chapter 1. A functional-cognitive model of the English NP -- Chapter 2. The English NP: Structure, order and the role of (inter)subjectivity -- Part II. Diachrony -- Chapter 3. (Inter)subjectification and grammaticalization: Pathways of change in the English NP -- Part III. The case studies -- Chapter 4. Data and methods -- Chapter 5. The completeness adjectives -- Chapter 6. The specificity adjectives -- Chapter 7. Such, zulk and what -- Chapter 8. Old and little: subjective compounds -- Summary Towards a reconciliation of synchrony and diachrony -- References -- Subject index