Les noms épistémiques et leurs verbes supports

This article aims at clarifying the notion of “cognitive nouns” (noms “épistémiques”), as it relates to cognitive mental phenomenons, for instance in sentences such as Max a une idée claire du problème (Max has a clear idea of the problem), or Max a une vision déformée du monde (Max has a twisted idea of the world). The syntactic analysis is essentially based upon the theory of support verbs. A semantic class of nouns describing the various aspects of mental activity, such as judgement and representation, was thus defined.