The present work is the first installment of a long-rings project, born of the conviction that progress in Indo-European studies is contingent upon a thorough reconsideration of central morphology in the light of the theory laryngeal, without dissolving the whole into a Kurylowtczian hotbed of analogistlc ferment. For this purpose the area of Sauisure’s initial progress servos as a starting point, followed by other questions that concern Indo-European morphology generally and cannot be localized in single dialects, including the noun and the pronoun.