Evidence from the Lithuanian active existential construction shows that Lithuanian has a type of VoiceP that assigns structural accusative case in the absence of a syntactically projected implicit argument in Spec,VoiceP. This construction violates Burzio’s (1986) Generalization and its later versions (e.g., Marantz 1991, Kratzer 1994, 1996, Woolford 2003, McFadden 2004, Legate 2014). This article offers a revised version of Burzio’s Generalization by proposing that while accusative case must be assigned by a thematic Voice, the assignment of accusative case by Voice may vary independently from the selection of a specifier.

来自立陶宛语主动存在结构的证据表明，立陶宛语有一种 VoiceP 类型，它在 Spec,VoiceP 中没有句法投影隐式参数的情况下分配结构宾格。这种构造违反了 Burzio (1986) 的泛化及其后续版本（例如，Marantz 1991、Kratzer 1994、1996、Woolford 2003、McFadden 2004、Legate 2014）。本文提供了 Burzio 概括的修订版，提出虽然宾格必须由主题语音指定，但语音对宾格的指定可能会独立于指定符的选择而有所不同。