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The aim of this paper is to analyze the structure of locative inversion constructions in unaccusative verbs and unergative verbs in English. Generally, unergative verbs are not allowed to invert locative PP construction. But in some cases they are allowed to invert locative PP construction. The inverted locative PP constructions with unergative verbs go through the change of the meaning of unaccusative verbs. Especially, if unergative verbs have a close relationship with their complement PP, they allow to invert locative PP construction. In the pragmatic approach, locative inversion constructions are analyzed through informational lightness and the relative familiarity of information. Unergative verbs are allowed to invert locative PP if they have informational lightness. On the other hand, Unaccusative verbs are not allowed to invert locative PP, because they have informational heaviness. Finally, when we try to analyze the structure of locative inversion constructions in unaccusative verbs and unergative verbs in English, we have to consider not only syntactic structure but semantic situation.