Multiple subjects in Flemish: the external possessor

THis paper is an overview of the main properties of some novel data from Flemish which involve a possessor DP that appears separated from the possessee with which it is associated, referred to as the “external possessor”. both the 'high' possessor and the lower possessee have a number of properties that are usually associated with subjects: this will lead to the claim that they are hosted in separate subject positions. The external possessor pattern described here sheds new light on the structure of the (high) middle field of Flemish embedded clauses