IE "break-up", dates, etc.

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

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Roger Wright <Roger.Wright at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
 
> Most noticeably in the case of the Romance languages,
>perhaps, for in this field modern datings for when they "broke up" range
>from the third century B.C. (Robert de Dardel's view) (no, I'm not
>making that up) to the sixteenth century or so (Rebecca Posner's).
 
You're making that up :-)
 
There's a difference between "started to break up" and "had become
mutually unintelligible".  The Roland is not written in the same
language as the Cid.
 
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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Amsterdam