ASP brings together a group of scholars at the University of Padua who are committed to the study of verbal aspect, following three main lines of research:

• diachronic research (particularly on Russian);
• Slavic comparative research (by means of analyses of the lesser studied South Slavic languages);
• typological research.

In a diachronic perspective an ongoing project entitled Lexical and aspectual functions of verbal prefixes and suffixes in Eastern Slavic texts from the centuries 11th-14th: towards a history of the formation process of verbal aspect in Russian is being carried out by Luisa Ruvoletto. She is the author of the Ph.D. thesis Preverbs in the "Povest’ vremennych let": towards an analysis of the formation process of verbal aspect in Russian, which she defended in April 2010. A similar Ph.D. thesis (Early aspectual pairs in the Zadonščina), has been defended by Mirko Sacchini in March 2014.

Comparative research is represented by a Ph.D. thesis comparing Russian and Slovene (Malinka Pila, The category of verbal aspect in the indicative mood in Russian and Slovene: a comparison of uses and meanings, defended in April 2013) and an M.A. thesis entitled The category of verbal aspect in Russian and Serbian: a comparison of uses and meanings by Branislava Grbič (December 2012). In a similar vein Ph.D. candidate Nika Zoričić has been concentrating on a comparison between Russian and Croatian.

Typological research is represented by a PRAT (Progetto d’Ateneo) University Project which has started only recently, entitled Slavic verbal aspect: grammaticalization in a comparative and typological perspective, with special reference to prefixation. It is mainly carried out by Alessio Muro.

Its goal is to provide cross-linguistic data and generalizations which can be of use in understanding the nature and development of Slavic aspect. Special attention is paid to selected aspectual systems of non-Indo-European languages. This line of research is mainly carried out by Alessio Muro, who has been interested in the macrovariation of grammatical systems ever since his M.A. studies. These interests also inspired his Ph.D. program (completed in 2009 with a dissertation entitled Noun Incorporation: a new theoretical perspective).