I would imagine something like this would work (not tested).
Another solution is to have a Virtualhost dedicated for your subdomain (that should already be the case, if not you'll get a lot of problems) and to make this VirtualHost ignore . Htaccess instructions of the master domain. You should really try to keep your subdomain configuration independant of the master domain domain configuration.
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