The overall goal of the project is to explore to what extent linguistic creativity can be measured across textual genres with quantitative methods. Previous studies on creativity assessment have shown that this seemingly subjective concept can be measured by objective, text-inherent linguistic features (DiStefano, Patterson, and Beaty 2024; Jacobs and Kinder. 2022; Weinstein et al. 2022; Zedelius, Mills, and Schooler 2019). Building on lay readers’ creativity assessments of a collection of spatial descriptions obtained from both literary and non-literary texts, we approach creativity from the following perspectives: