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This paper examines morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics of the proprietive suffix -LEEx of Sakha (Yakut). The suffix -LEEx is highly productive and its resultant functions as adnominal phrases or predicates (i.e. predicative possession), as well as noun phrases or adverbials. Semantically, the suffix -LEEx often implies possession at that very moment. The suffix -LEEx has been described as an adjectivizing suffix, but this suffix shows uniqueness as a derivational suffix in that the suffix -LEEx can attach after a plural suffix, which is inflectional and to a verbal noun which retains its accusative argument.