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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the acquisition of English dative constructions on the basis of Pinker's(1989) Narrow-range Rules. There was a meaningful and unique pattern between particular dative verbs and particular semantic structure types formed in the lexicon of the Korean learners' interlanguage. As learners' proficiency in English increases, the association between dative verbs and semantic structures produced became closer to English as a target language. The subjects strongly favored the use of NP PPs over NP NPs. On the basis of the above, the study concluded that learners acquired English dative structures by following the learning principles suggested by Pinker(1989).