‘Reason’ satellites provide a motivation for why an SoA [state of affairs] [again, necessarily [+control]] took place in terms of a causal ground ascribed to the controller. Such a Reason may consist in a close paraphrase of a Purpose: (80) John ran to the station ‘because he wanted to catch the train’ The difference with (79) [John ran to the station ‘in order to catch the train’] is, that the Reason satellite in (80) describes John’s wish to achieve the future SoA rather than that future SoA as such. The Reason may also consist in some preceding SoA: (81) John ran to the station ‘because he had been late the day before’ […].
- Dik (1989), a pag.207