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This paper is mainly concerned with the nature of the locative alternation. Under the derivational account, even though alternating verbs have two different syntactic structures, they may have a single lexical semantic representation. The two distinct syntactic structures are related by transformations on the assumption that transformations do not change meanings. However, it seems that there is an obvious difference in meaning between the variants. Thus, the two variants cannot be used in a given context at the same time. In contrast, under the lexical account, an alternating verb is assumed to have distinct lexical semantic representations. These distinct lexical semantic representations may easily give rise to two different syntactic realizations, whereas a verb with distinct lexical entries would pose a pressing problem in capturing the near-paraphrase relation between the two variants even though they vary in meaning. Accordingly, not only syntactic and semantic properties but also pragmatic properties of the locative alternation should be taken into account to provide a satisfying account.