The early issues of TQ featured both structuralist (e.g., E. B. Carr, 1967) and Chomskyan (e.g., R. B. Long, 1969; Rutherford, 1968) orientations to linguistics, sharing the pages of the same issue sometimes, but eventually leading to vigorous debates (see Waedhaugh, 1970, against structuralist assumptions). Whereas the latter had a triumphalist tone of novelty and progress, the structtralists called into question their assumptions (Carroll, 1971; Ross, 1972). However, in different ways, both movements captured certain core elements of modernity. Structuralist linguistics represented the impulse to define the object of analysis autonomously and discover the internal rules that can be explained in context-free sui generis systems.