Samuel David Epstein & Erich M. Groat 
Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations [PDF ebook] 

This book presents a Minimalist analysis of syntactic relations. The authors argue that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance, and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building couched within a new and controversial level-free model of the syntactic component of the human language faculty.