Due to some last-minute changes, we have updated the programme. Please check for the latest version.

Registration for delegates who wish to attend the conference (and are not presenting) has been extended to June 30th. If you would like to register for the conference, please visit the registration page and complete both the online form and payment form. It is not possible to pay on arrival in Swansea. All payments must be received by June 30th.

Unfortunately Prof Florence Myles, University of Essex, will be unable to join us for FLaRN in July. However, we are delighted to announce that Prof Paul Meara has stepped in to replace her.

We will finalise the programme and update shortly.

Registration is now open for FLaRN 2014. We have also updated with extra information about the conference, accommodation in Swansea and travelling here.

We have decided, in light of several requests, to extend the abstract submission deadline until 15th January 2014 @ 5pm GMT. Thank you to the people who have already submitted. We will send out confirmation of receipt on 2nd Jan.

The purpose of the Formulaic Language Research Network (FLaRN) is to co-ordinate research work in the field of formulaic language, to share ideas and resources, and to create a sense of community between researchers who are not necessarily in geographical proximity. The network is a tool for keeping a group of like-minded people from around the world in touch with each other, and has been the focal point for three postgraduate conferences in Cardiff 2004, Twickenham 2006 and Nottingham 2008, and two full conferences for researchers at all stages of the academic life cycle in Paderborn, Germany, in 2010 and in Tilburg, Netherlands, in 2012.

The 2014 FLaRN conference in Swansea, UK, will again be a full conference, with papers on topics associated with formulaic language such as idioms, chunks, phrases, recurrent strings from any theoretical framework and any area of linguistics (e.g. corpus research, L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition/learning/teaching, language disorders, etc).

The general FLaRN website can be found here.