Yes, Medieval Latin already shifted drastically in that direction. Speaking of pontificating, I remember a Professor at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies who was somewhat renowned for doing his thesis on word order in Thomas Aquinas. Can't remember his name. One of his students (in a parody moment, but it may have been reflecting a real argument) said that he argued that the whole dispute between the Western and Eastern churches over the Trinity was about the weight and order in which you took the possessives -- Son of God. To quote the parody: "Of course, the arrival of the barbarian hordes across Europe somewhat loosened the grammatical rigour of the times....."

yours, Peter T.