grammaticality - Usage of the phrase " just because" at the end of sentences


Usually, because links the premise and the conclusion. But there is one usage of the word I come across often, not in contemporary writings but older works.


These are of the form: "[subject did something] just because", where the the phrase "just because" is used to imply that the doer's actions were not guided by any purpose and the act was performed only for the sake of it, or on an impulse.


How can this usage of the word because be explained?




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