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The purpose of the study is to examine how Korean L2 learners' knowledge of unaccusativity is represented in their interlanguage grammars of English. High level English learners and mid-level English learners participated in this study. The result of the study shows that Korean L2 learners do go through developmental stages by proficiency level in acquiring the difference between unaccusative verbs and unergative verbs, which is distinct from the previous studies. This paper also suggests that Korean L2 learners of English distinguish between derived unaccusative verbs and unergative verbs. This can be empirical evidence to support Matue(2005)'s claim that derived unaccusative verbs are different from unergative verbs.