British _do_: v-stranding ellipsis?

This paper experimentally investigates verb phrase ellipsis in the “British do” construction. Prominent in the literature has been to analyze British 'do' as realizing v; however, previous arguments for this conclusion fail to exclude a previously unexplored hypothesis that British 'do' realizes Voice. I provide new experimental evidence from voice mismatches and argument structure mismatches which support analyzing British 'do' ellipsis as eliding VP. Previous suggestions that British 'do' is incompatible with voice mismatches were not confirmed. Alternative analyses of British 'do' in v versus Voice are reconsidered in light of these results.