Possession As Participants: Decoding & Encoding

(1) decoding the possessed (‘Whose is this DVD?’)

this DVD	is	mine
Identified	Process: intensive	Identifier
Token: possessed		Value: possessor

the identity decodes the Token: possessed by reference to the Value: possessor

(2) encoding the possessor (‘Which is yours?)

mine	is	this DVD
Identified	Process: intensive	Identifier
Value: possessor		Token: possessed

the identity encodes the Value: possessor by reference to the Token: possessed

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 247).