Download or read book A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations written by Samuel David Epstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.