Abstract
Impersonal subjects are subjects unspecified for their reference. While previous analyses identified man 'it' and kháw as non-referential subject in Thai co-occurring with impersonal verbs (Indrambarya 1996, 2011, Phimsawat 2011), there exists the use of third person pronoun th ân ‘they’ as an impersonal pronoun. This paper aims at investigating how the three impersonal subjects in Thai exhibit the distance between speakers and reflect the language power inherited in different language registers.
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