In this paper we give some learnability results in the field of categorial grammars. We show that in contrast to k-valued classical categorial grammars, different classes of Lambek grammars are not learnable from strings following Gold’s
model. The results are obtained by the construction of limit points in each considered class: non associative Lambek grammars
with empty sequences and Lambek grammars without empty sequences and without product. Such results express the difficulty
of learning categorial grammars from unstructured strings and the need for structured examples.
Keywords grammatical inference - categorial grammars - Lambek calculus - learning from positive examples - computational linguistic