Morphological means of creation of the comic

The reflection of the category of the comic in literary speech is under investigation in the article. The basis of the taxonomic description of morphological means in the Russian language, offered by the author, consists of the following ways of creation of the comic: the usage of homonymy and contiguous phenomena to it, play up of the meanings of the same linguistic unit, repetition of the word in different grammatical forms (polyptot), divergence from the linguistic norms.