Existence results are developed for generalized variational inequalities. In addition, we also establish several related characteristics about solutions. This is done by studying a certain parametric family of variational inequality problems. The treatment covers noncompact convex constraint regions in locally convex topological vector spaces and upper semicontinuous operators having acyclic images. The main results rely on some coercivity conditions of Karamardian's type for multivalued operators. Further, we establish some interesting equivalent characteristics in the setting Hilbert spaces. In virtue of some kind of monotonicity, those results extend several existence results in the literature of nonlinear variational inequalities.