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Nowadays, many linguists pay much attention to the linguistic personality. This has led to the formation of a new branch of linguistics, linguo-personology. The author points out that one of its main tasks is to study individual and typological characteristics of the linguistic personality. The author analyzes theoretical approaches to determining the notion of linguistic personality and its structure. The derivation is treated as a form of displaying the linguistic creativity. The experimental results have been summarized in order to distinguish the personological types of the linguistic personality taking into account its creativity. The article also contains recommendations how to use the obtained results of the experiment while teaching the mother tongue.