It can be done, I did it here for example:
http://krimsonkloverdev.malbert.me/ – dev site with seperate wordpress install
http://www.malbert.me/ – main site on root level.
I set everything up at my host, I’d recommend you just contact them first and be sure you can have separate database installs as that’s basically all you need.
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