Meaning is one of the problems which seems difficult to deal with to
 such extent that Leonard Bloomfield, who resisted the mentalist approach
 to language, considered it impossible to define meaning till we have a
 scientifically accurate knowledge of everything in the speaker’s world.
 Linguists consider meaning as one of the most complex subjects to deal
 with and some of them are in doubt whether meaning can be studied
 objectively and systematically as phonology and grammar or not. The
 complexity and vagueness of semantics are due to the fact that semantics
 is not concerned with one specific field but with various fields such as:
 philosophy, logic, psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Many
 linguists, recently, do their new theory of grammar.
 This paper is intended to present a brief study of the status of semantics in
 Transformational generative grammar. It is of three parts:
 
 
 Part One is concerned with the scope of semantics.
 Part Two presents a historical survey of semantics and its
 
 
 historical development in the schools of grammar.
 
 Part Three is a review of the status of semantics in the
 
 
 Transformational schools of grammar.